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Is layered architecture style inherently monolithic?
I don't have the book you cited from at hand, but from the excerpts I could find by googling, I am sure the authors were talking about the specific horizontal layering
Presentation Layer / Business ...
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Is layered architecture style inherently monolithic?
The purpose of creating layers in an application is to separate technical responsibilities from each other. An application with a layered architecture typically has a presentation layer, a service ...
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Is layered architecture style inherently monolithic?
No.
How do I know?
People wrote monoliths before layers were a thing
A layer is a collection of modules/classes with similar responsibilities
Plenty microservices have layers
Now all that said, ...
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Is it safe to make training data and labels as global variables in C?
in C, every callback should get a void* parameter to allow such decoupling. Then you can pass the address of a structure containing the parameters you need:
struct foo_data {
int alpha;
int ...
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How can I restore an entity from the database while keeping my entities database-independent?
What I would do is a combination of both approaches(CreateFrom and MapFrom). Let me explain.
but this could potentially allow creating an invalid entity inside the domain
This suggests that your ...
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How to improve a monthly usage quota system for an API with growing number of users?
Work out the count of requests from a time indexed log of requests instead of storing a number in reddis. (elastic etc)
Now you are just writing to the log for each request.
Move your usage ...
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How to handle dependencies between microservices all called within one large service
In addition to Greg's and Amit's answer, at first place we have to look into bounded context while working on microservices architecture. May be defining clear boundary and responsibility of each ...
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Is ASP.NET's default recommendation of registering dependencies in the Web project bad practice?
You can create an extension method in the project that uses Microsoft.Data.SqlClient that registers the dependencies.
Something like:
public static class ServicesConfiguration
{
public static void ...
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Is ASP.NET's default recommendation of registering dependencies in the Web project bad practice?
Why is it standard practice for ASP.NET projects to give the Web
project access to everything?
Because probably 90% of netcore web solutions just have the one web project.
Imagine if you had to make ...
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How to handle dependencies between microservices all called within one large service
In addition to Greg's answer, see if you can separate the Statistical service function consumed by Customer service as another service. This new service will be meant only for Customer service.
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Where to check preconditions in multi functions
Iron rule: No outside input must ever cause damage. Worst case it must be handled as if it never happened, possibly logged, possibly with an error message if the user might do something about it or ...
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Where to check preconditions in multi functions
There are basically two ways to deal with preconditions.
The caller is fully responsible, and if the preconditions are not met, all warranties are void. This is essentially how the C standard library ...
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How to deal with overlapping domains?
Specific to the Problem
An employee knows his laptop, but a laptop does not know an employee. The employee uses the laptop, and it's a good idea to put employee-laptop logic in the same package with ...
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How to handle dependencies between microservices all called within one large service
As long as you have micro services calling each other directly, you will have hard dependencies between services. With your current design, the statistics service is a active participant in the ...
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How can I track the status of multiple messages in asynchronous processes?
My initial idea was to put an initial overall state and an initial task state for every task in a database. Then I would put each message into a queue. But what if the application crashes after ...
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How can I track the status of multiple messages in asynchronous processes?
But what if the application crashes after putting only one message into the queue. Or what if the processor of the queue crashes all the time, hence never send a status update message? What if the ...
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How to avoid side effects in complex code
There is no silver bullet to solve your issue.
That does not mean it cannot be solved, though "solved" is probably be the wrong term. A better description is IMHO "it can be managed&...
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Multiplayer FPS Architecture
I think you might be missing an 'Event' model in your design. You talk about managing the state of the game, which is important, but things like 'player A gun fired' are pretty hard to model using ...
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Multiplayer FPS Architecture
You've fallen into the trap of deciding that each noun should be a class, rather than each class being a class. Usually people with this syndrome make a class for each noun in their program - Player, ...
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Multiplayer FPS Architecture
This is the sort of thing that is remarkably hard to do well. The general subject of "rollback netcode" is worth doing your reading on, as it can make or break the player experience. You ...
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Multiplayer FPS Architecture
The core idea of multi player games, at least where there is any competition or reason to cheat, is to never trust the client.
Using this model the client is simply a dumb client. It sends mouse and ...
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How important is it to clearly understand requirements and architecture before starting to code?
This answer is to be seen in the context of the question, i.e. when having the need to do something, but simply not being able to procure req's and architectural decisions in time. I.e., when ...
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Implementing paging with multiple data sources
It's often very difficult or impossible to combine multiple data sources into a single index. For example, if the underlying sources change often, you end up having to maintain essentially a ...
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How important is it to clearly understand requirements and architecture before starting to code?
Extreme Programming (XP) calls what I think you're describing a spike, and the term has proliferated around to a degree. If for example:
the customer changes their mind about what the UI flow should ...
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How important is it to clearly understand requirements and architecture before starting to code?
The most important thing is knowing when to stop.
Gather requirements. Do architecture design. Stop when it's not teaching you anything. I think of them like making popcorn. When it's making ideas pop ...
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How important is it to clearly understand requirements and architecture before starting to code?
I hate these wishy washy "it depends" answers. Here's my answer: Don't bother with requirements and architecture.
Why?
Requirements
You are just pushing back the coding problems to the ...
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How important is it to clearly understand requirements and architecture before starting to code?
There is a large field of study devoted to this. See for example:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Software_project_management
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agile_software_development
https://...
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