Questions tagged [architecture]
The high-level design and description of a software system. Architectural design distills away details of implementations, algorithms, and data representation to concentrate on the interaction of "black box" components.
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REST API with swappable backends
What would be the best way to have a single REST API but with multiple "backends" (Not sure if this is the correct terminology)? Currently we have a basket/cart API that handles product ...
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How to maintain dependencies shared among microservices?
There is a dependency jar containing tons of service classes mostly used to retrieve data from database, and this jar is used among several different micro services in one cluster.
There is a big ...
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How to Handle Large File Uploads in Angular and Hibernate Without Exceeding HTTP Request Size Limit?
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I am working on an application using Angular (front-end) and Hibernate (back-end). My use case involves uploading multiple images, which I convert to base64 format and send as JSON with ...
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Is providing a method of a domain entity with a data/ service provider object a bad design?
I have an entity called User, and it has a method to change the user's email address. I'm using a strongly typed object for representing the email address.
public class User: BaseEntity
{
// Some ...
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Architecture of a scientific software [closed]
First things first, I was not sure it was the right place to seek advice and feedback about software architecture, but this post on meta.stackexchange conviced me to do so. I hope my question finds an ...
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Is it a good idea to have a fork of a library's public repo in my solution?
My company's project uses an open source library, of which I have made a fork for some customizations. My idea is to clone this fork into my solution and to keep pushing my changes into it, as well as ...
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Simplifying model interface while using diff undo-redo?
Introduction & context
I am working (hobby) on a CAD/CAM (mostly CAM) solution. It is a desktop application in C++, Qt, OpenGL, JavaScript and CMake.
General Undo/Redo strategies
Most desktop ...
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What are the CPU architectures for the most common general purpose devices (i.e., Android, Windows/Linux PC, RaspberryPi etc.)? [closed]
Wikipedia lists over 45 different Instruction Set Architectures.
I would bet that most of those are listed for legacy purposes, but I barely have any knowledge on the subject (I'm not even sure if ...
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When should I think about two databases (the first for reads, the second for writes) in CQRS?
I am not asking what are advantages of two databases - the first for reads and the second for writes. I am asking WHEN I should have two databases for reads and writes? Probably there is no simple ...
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How to decide between keeping data within the code or in a database
As an example, we have an entity called Invoice which has bills of purchased services.
public class Invoice
{
private readonly List<Bill> _serviceBills;
public string InvoiceId { get; }
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What approaches from the PNPM package manager are unnecessary to implement for a new programming language from scratch?
I asked this question about PNPM architecture internals a while back, PNPM is the latest rendition of a Node.js package manager which solves a lot of the pain points of Yarn and NPM, but has to hack ...
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Encryption of PII data in database logic in store procedures and desktop application [closed]
I have an old desktop application (Delphi) with logic in stored procedures (Oracle). The application is storing some personal data including salaries. I want to encrypt data so someone with db access ...
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How to model two bounded contexts with tight coupling between them
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Hello, at my company we have been working with DDD for some time now. We have a monolith and some services. The bounded contexts in the monolith use HTTP calls to communicate between them or ...
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Backend to client communication: WebSocket or Message Queue?
I have a hobby project, for simplicity imagine a poker game, consisting of a backend (Spring) and a client application (Flutter) where the client can join rooms in which he can take a seat. The client ...
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Do you re-include system headers in the implementation files?
Here's a scenario:
suppose you have #include <unordered_map> in the header
and you don't declare it anywhere in the implementation file
but you use it, maybe
mp[whatever] = some;
should you re-...
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