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Drawing the boundary between high level API and low level API
Assume that were developing a cross platform graphics engine. Now we have quite a lot of low level APIs to choose from (OpenGL, Vulkan, DirectX 11, DirectX 12, ...). Now because of this, we are gonna ...
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Is it a good idea to have separate instances for the public API Server and API Server used by the Web App?
I've built a React Web application with an Express REST API server and Firebase Auth. Also, Nginx is set up as a reverse proxy, so API calls from React to https://mydomain.com/api are routed to ...
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What should we consider when designing a load balancer with minimum cost
Given a set of processes running on a cluster of hosts, I'm designing a system that load balances the hosts through live migrations (carried out by an external service) of the processes.
The goal of ...
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Building a Microservices App -- Can you give feedback on architecture?
I did some googling, and I was directed to Software Engineering to ask architecture questions. If you know of a different forum that could help me, please direct me to it
I recently started learning ...
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Structuring optional REST resource hierarchy
I am designing a REST service with multiple end points which will be servicing the following hierarchy:
Department has many Category Groups
Category Group has many Category(-ies)
Category has many Sub-...
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Architecting multiple codebases calling our public API + private API for first-party applications
Currently, we have the issue where we have two codebases (API & Website) calling the same database (along with some duplicate business logic) and we want to streamline this so all requests are ...
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Photo Library Service: What should be right way of photo library using AWS S3 and Java
I want to make a service that is supposed to upload Photos in S3 and make them available using a link.
I have few design plans for my service.
PLAN 1:
Upload photo to my REST API which will update ...
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User-friendly parameter parsing from yaml
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I have designed an evaluation tool (in python) and need some help to make it more user friendly. The tool requires ~100 (nested) parameters, which it gets from a yaml file and stores ...
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API versioning at BackEnd - Declare the versioning(v1) at global level or at each controller/method level?
If I keep versioning at the global level then it would save the clutter at each controller level,
// main.js
main() {
registerGlobalRoutesPrefix("/api/v1");
}
// controller1.js
@Route("controller1-...
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How to design job-handling for API
I am not sure if this is the correct place to ask, please direct me to the correct place if this is not it.
Context
I have written a do-all, keep-all, serve-all API (it started small, then grew out ...
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Does it make sense to apply interface segregation to a facade?
In my project, we have a couple different back-end APIs/endpoints that are called by the same front-end page at different times. All of these endpoints are sort of related to the overall "theme" or "...
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How to design microservices with large number of joint entities outside of the domain border?
I'm working on breaking down a monolith application in smaller applications or microservices. Like always, sometimes it's easy and sometimes it's harder to identify domains and split those into ...
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Creating a webhook server / sender
I'm now working with an API project, where I'm developing new API endpoints and the final result at the end of the life cycle is as follows: a client should receive updated data out of what it sent to ...
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Atomicty with two points of failure
Lets say we have an API that receives requests to commit a money transaction.
The API receives the requests from a certain client and calls for a certain 3rd party service (lets say provided by the ...
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Endpoint returning only new and updated records
let me state some items.
I have this endpoint that returns a list of objects, and I would like to return only the changed ones.
I have an App calling this endpoint that caches this list, and today it ...
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