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mongodb queries architecture - resolving lots of nested referenced objects
I have an angular 8 application, with a Python + MongoDB API on the backend.
At present, I have 4 collections, namely: Users, Tasks, Companies and Groups.
All of these resource types are retrievable ...
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Incorporate a background job enqueue endpoint in a REST API
To exchange data between our standalone frontend application and the backend API, we currently have a REST API, with standard endpoint to list/create/update/destroy ressources with a consistent naming ...
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Develop based on my current requirements only? [duplicate]
I've a service called Claims-Service which has following signature:
IClaimsService { EnsureClaim(claimType, userId) }
It queries database to see if the claim is present in any of my roles or not.
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REST API Client Library Design
I'm working on a reusable client library to abstract a REST endpoint that we use in many of our in-house applications. It is actually split into 3 APIs, and certain endpoints/resources require ...
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Exposing complex actions using http verbs in REST API
consider the following REST resource Account
{
number:"number-000",
name: "name",
customer : {},
type : {},
status : "status",
balance : 0,
rating : 0....
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Keep Hitting 3rd party API or Store Commonly Queried Data In DB?
Colleague and I have begun a long (and hopefully fruitful) project. I've been building and have come to my first crux, and now I ask the experts of the Stack Exchange for their guidance.
I'll keep ...
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Which layer should have responsibility for rounding numbers?
I am developing a financial system and want to have a defined policy for rounding monetary values.
Given the following layers:
View
API
Entity Model
Persistence
If I am passing a monetary value ...
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Why read and write API are good or why not?
While designing a complex system some of my colleges came back with the idea of having two separates APIs, one that will perform the writes into de databases and another one that will only do the ...
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How to Redesign and scale legacy MVC application
I’m working with legacy web app for managing an animal shelter which need to be rearchitected/redesign, so it can scale and be possible to deploy in a central location.
Currently it's physically ...
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Board support driver for custom board - API design - MCU resource configuration
I have got to implement a board support package for a custom board, and I would like to know your opinion about the different approaches of designing board support drivers. My custom board pupulates ...
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APIs: Many minimal ones or a few bigger
I'm currently working on a project/product which consists of ~60 REST APIs and one client (Web app)
I find many downsides on this design, and not so many benefits, and I'd like to know if this is ...
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Should I use a strongly typed programming language for an integration with a JSON RPC 2.0 API?
I have to integrate with another company's API, which they unfortunately decided to write in JSON RPC 2.0.
If you're not familiar with JSON RPC, it's a lightweight RPC protocol that defines a ...
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API design and storing custom queries from Db to cache
I was thinking about how people actually implement utilising results from a cache before a doing database lookup. When designing an API, should there always be a manual check to the cache first before ...
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API Architecture Decision on Authorization & Validation levels
We are designing an authorization mechanism for a Product API where users have their own claims.
The api has a patch request like this:
PATCH https://product-fcd.com/api/product -d {"Products": []} -...
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Should a POST endpoint in a REST API allow the inclusion of related resources?
Given the following REST endpoints:
(GET, POST) /api/v2/employer
(GET) /api/v2/employer/{id}
(GET, POST) /api/v2/employer/{id}/employees
Should a consumer of this API have the ability to ...
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