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In an "Always On" architecture, how are duplicate concurrent transactions handled?
Imagine a scenario where a gift card has been purchased with cash, the gift card is duplicated, and each card is used to purchase an iPad at a self-service counter at exactly the same time.
What are ...
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Linux C: Using mmap and inotify: I think I'm doing something wrong
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I'm making some database software. This database requires several client processes to talk to the database process. This database has a feature to which the client can invoke a function ...
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How to design a system that imports data into the system from a large amount of files
A lot of our clients migrate from their existing system to our web application. they bring in approximately 150,000 excel files which I have to first load in my database and then perform some ...
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When to save complex html/css/js as an image and load that instead?
I am working on building a site and have a fairly complex layout consisting of many html elements is inside of one large button. I imagine that I could just save this layout as an image and load the ...
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How to keep attribution in version control (git) when one author moves another author's code?
Sometimes code will need to be moved. A common example is some logic that exists in a controller needs to get moved to a helper class so it can be called from outside of that controller. So someone ...
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Are Microservices Architecture and a Single Customer View able to co-exist?
Given the microservices pattern is the decomposition of software by business capability with ownership of state, and a single customer view is an aggregated, central, "single" data store of ...
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Best Practices to Deploy Docker on DigitalOcean using Terraform
I'm wondering if there are some best practices to deploy Docker images to Digital Ocean using Terraform.
Because I don't expect much load and don't need failover features etc. I'm not aiming to deploy ...
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Apply this popup feature for infinite users [closed]
I made a popup feature, which shows the phone number of a user. I was able to apply this feature to one instance. A single user.
Normally, each user has a unique phone number.
But then, I thought, ...
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When and how can I use an Entity created in a use case X' sequence inside another use case Y' sequence? [closed]
I have a use case X' sequence in which I create an Entity Z.
I have another use case Y' sequence where I want to use the SAME already created Entity Z.
How to do that? Do I have to specify it in some ...
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Which HTTP status to return if a downstream service I depend on returned 500 error
My service B is part of a chain of services and calls a downstream service C.
A --> B --> C
Service C is returning HTTP 500 errors for any error it faced, including bad requests or input ...
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Could a language allow for persistent allocations without heap?
Is it possible in theory to have a programming language that allows for object lifetimes that exist beyond the current scope but without using heap?
As a little background, in embedded development it ...
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Would Injecting dependencies in C# as default parameters be a bad practice?
Given the (old) debate over whether Singletons are overused/abused/are worth it - would it be a bad idea to inject the dependencies as default parameters? In this way, we could get rid of defining ...
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Side effect as a common object seems like a bad pattern
Given an auction system, there are several ways to apply a discount to the transaction's final amount, e.g.
Special discount for a given seller
discount for a given buyer
Discount for a specific ...
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Are there typo-tolerance algorithms (as opposed to string similarity)? [closed]
I want to build a search with basic typo tolerance.
There are quite a few string similarity algorithms (and implementations for almost all languages I guess).
However, humans tend to make some typos ...
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Better long-term configuration maintainability [closed]
As an experienced IT professional familiar with systems of different levels of complexity, it is relatively normal to maintain system configurations in configuration files. For installations and ...
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How to model a ternary relationship in a graph-based paradigm?
Consider a context where we have Users saving Questions and adding personal Tags to them.
In a graph-based paradigm, a first approach could be something like:
(User)-[SAVES {tags}]->(Question)
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Best way to store key-value pairs of different types in c++?
I'm reading values from a (PE) binary file. The values have a known length and position in the file and are stored with no padding (right next to each other). They store various types (int, long, ...
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How do I properly write these functions? [duplicate]
So far my weakest side has been proper code structuring and organization. I wanted to know how I can properly apply separation of concerns to the following code to make it more organized.
I have a ...
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Why is having bloated interfaces an anti pattern?
[I'm using the term interface here with C#'s interface in mind. I won't tag the question with a C# tag because it really isn't a C# question.]
In my work we do unit and integration tests but we don't ...
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Using two different languages where one would suffice for the task (microservices)
I previously asked this on StackOverflow, but doesn't fit there and I was suggested to move it here.
I was thinking about using two seperate backend languages for seperating concerns in a project of ...
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Microservices - should we avoid too much dependency between services? [closed]
When should communication between services be used to exchange information between them? Let's say we have a situation where the client sends a request to the api-gateway to create a new project in ...
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How to establish communication between devices on separate local networks?
There is a number of devices with Internet access but they are on LANs and have no public IPs. As time goes by more devices will be added.
I need to be able to communicate with each device on demand (...
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How would a SRP `class Car` look like? [closed]
SRP insists that a class should have only a single a reason to change. Please guide me through the following example.
class Car
{
drive_forward();
embark();
disembark();
fuel_up();
}
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PyPI Package Names Governance
The Python Package Index (PyPI) is a public repository, and it seems that anyone can upload packages to it using a tool like twine. The openness of the system raises some questions:
Say, a person/...
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Design pattern for persistent data storage - load and save arbitrary file, database, api etc
I have the following problem - I write the code for object data manager, and one of requirements is being able to save/load data into some persistent data storage. I want to make it as the following:
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Question on Data Structure [closed]
How to construct a Binary Search Tree from an In-order traversal of a Binary tree?
For example the numbers below
2,11,20,24,33,56,80.
My problem is to determine which of the numbers should be the root ...
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What does "legacy signature" mean?
I see the term legacy signature a lot in the documentation of programming languages. For example in the php documentation :
Passing the separator after the array (i.e. using the legacy signature) ...
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What is the best practice for BDD?
The web application I am working on is currently (partially) tested automatically.
All scenarios are hardcoded in custom code in this way :
WebElement bt = findButtonWithLabel("foo")
bt....
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Is splitting Android activities/classes into many Kotlin extension functions a good or bad practise?
I have been working on an Android application for some time, and ever since the beginning I've developed a practice of splitting my class's (mostly activity/fragment) code up into multiple files.
This ...
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Technical Debt in frontend development [closed]
I have recently joined in a new company as a frontend developer and I got access to their current repository which is made in ReactJS. I can see that current team is not very experienced in reactJS ...
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What is the right way to update claims in identity-server 4 from Angular
I have a multitenant application where a user can belong to multiple tenants. I'm using Identity-Server 4 for the authentication.
I have two applications Angular and API. When a user is not ...
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Use case diagram question confusion
For this question we got for a mock test we did and I have put the correct options in bold
Consider the following use case diagram, is it correct to state that:
a. Customer directly interacts with ...
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Alternative design pattern to a method containing a lot of methods? [duplicate]
I have a method in a class that takes in some variables and then runs a series of other methods in a pre-defined sequence. Below is a simplistic example:
class MyClass:
def ...
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Licensing scenario question
Problem:
I have an API that lives in my organizations tenant. We use scopes and roles through Azure AD to authorize our API endpoints. These scopes and roles are assigned in our clients app ...
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is there a two-way (bidirectional) observer pattern?
I have two classes. "System" and "Bluetooth". I want to have a really loose coherency between these two classes as they should be able to exist or not without depending on each ...
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Validation in both controller and my service classes?
I use the Laravel framework.
I've got controllers, like CustomerActivityController, and I've got a service layer with services like CustomerActivityService.
Say I want to create a new customer ...
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Why should I use an ORM like Entity Framework Core?
I have taken over the maintenance and development of a mature .NET Framework ASP.NET MVC application which uses an Entity Framework repository pattern. Several developers have worked on it before me ...
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What is the origin of #pragma once? [closed]
Although not part of the C/C++ standard, #pragma once is widely used in place of include guards. I personally find it to be a great feature (for how it prevents nasty copy-paste errors between headers,...
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Should we abandon the "if not null" pattern?
I've seen that with the Dictionary API now has methods with bool TryGetValue<TKey, TValue>(TKey key, out TValue value) and I like this kind of methods because they're signaling to the other devs ...
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In a microservice architecture, can individual microservices contain any configuration file? Is keeping a small config a good practice?
I thought, In a microservice architecture, only the "Configuration Server" will be responsible for providing configuration to individual microservices even if it's a small config. So that we ...
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How does algolia work? [closed]
Algolia is a full text search engine and Saas provider with a pay as you go pricing model.
I have used a lot of databases before and one of the main challenges with databases are how to create indexes:...
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Best way of handling concurrent requests
I am working on an Authentication system (java based) that will authenticate users and create a session for them. This session is valid for 5 hours. I do not want the same user to have multiple ...
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How do you manage "technical users" in your software/platform?
I tried to look for some tips regarding my question but couldn't find anything so decided to post it here :)
In my product I currently have 2 types of users:
end-users who are humans using the ...
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How do services validate incoming emails [closed]
I am setting up and programming an email service which can both send and receive emails; except I am wondering what steps I should take in order to validate incoming emails. As many of you probably ...
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Keycloak duplicate registration page
I have a case where I need to separate the users by type in Keycloak.Basiacally the entire application is separated by two user types. For the purposes of the example let's say a seller and a buyer. ...
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What's the best way to aggregate data in a micro service architecture?
Imagine you have something like a BFF (Backend for frontend) that holds many entities coming from different microservices. Those entities don't have any foreign key constraints because each entity is ...
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How to handle config/env vars in a library project
I am building a new Python library project to be consumed by several of my application projects. The existing code consumes environment variables for various configuration settings. Should my ...
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best practice to recover or handle a request that is half completed or partially failed [closed]
Assume I have a request:
app.post('/order', ()=>{
// task 1
// task 2
// task 3
})
and task1 and task2 is completed but task3 failed.
for example a user paid order successfully but saving order ...
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Software testing single node B-TREE [closed]
I am trying to solve this question about testing in software systems, can anybody help? Thanks.:
And this is control flow graph for B-TREE:
B-Tree algorithm of flow graph:
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Calculate operation time and setuptime or costprice based on a variable set of parameters - Design Pattern?
I work in a production company where my colleagues calculate costprices based on 3D models and their respective operations. Apart from workactivities where a user has to insert an operation time and ...
