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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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Designing a restful API for a desktop application to facilitate communication with other APIs
Just for some context, I am a CS student in my second-year who is working on a C++ desktop application (using the Qt framework) made by an engineering professor.
The application is an educational tool ...
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Hierachy and API design for a CSS-selector-related Python library
I'm writing a Python CSS-selector library that allows one to write these kinds of expressions in Python as a pet project. The goal of the library is to represent selectors in a flat, intuitive and ...
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Is it okay to combine bff and rest api?
I'm building an application related to donation on streams.
And I have such models as "alert" and "alert-template".
"alert" is a set of different parameters to understand ...
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How to improve a monthly usage quota system for an API with growing number of users?
Couple of years ago, I designed an API service which has a limit on the number of requests per month per user. To track the monthly usage of each user, I used a table called monthly_usage. The table ...
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Best practices to link, associate, or abstract similar but different entities together
What are the best practices that I can follow that can simplify or help abstract out entity modeling when there are many similar but different entities?
I have a large game system with different types ...
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What are the best practices in public API vs internal only API being on the same service
I wanted to understand what are the best industry practices and the pros-cons in the following 2 choices:
A single service that serves internal only API and public API, vs
2 separate services - one ...
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Best way to calculate profit/loss with historical data
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I need to build a profit/loss graph for a mobile app. The api from which I can get the historical price data only allows me to retrieve 1 item at a time. If the user has 500 items that would ...
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MVC-like architecture: Model-Controller communication of results/status
I'm struggling on designing a solid architecture for my project.
In particular, I don't know how to handle the communication between the models and the controllers.
My goals are:
Following the ...
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Should I separate the public and private portions of an application into two separate apps?
So I'm currently running an analysis task for my company. I won't go into too much detail but we are dealing with medical records and other confidential data. Previously this application was only used ...
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Who to manage AAA , gateway or business service
In a debate with our solution architect, there were 2 proposed solutions to handle (illustrated below on the figure)
In the first, the API Gateway manages Authentication, Authorization and Accounting ...
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Communication between two apps
I am thinking of creating two applications, one of which (App 1) will be in Django (DRF) and other (App 2)might be Django but might be another more lightweight framework (maybe Flask or plain Django ...
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Expose or consume API REST?
I am preparing the software architecture for my client project based on APIs REST
The idea is that any data exchange between my client and his partner will be via API REST call
The specification is ...
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What design pattern to implement notifications for a .NET application?
I have an ASP .NET web application dashboard that is used to send notifications to several .NET desktop clients. The current implementation is that the web app writes the new notification to a ...
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How to design "define-by-run" API?
I am amazed by the way APIs of some machine learning packages are designed, namely Chainer's and Pytorch's "define-by-run" API. Even Optuna, a hyper parameter tuning library has "define-...
