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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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B2B vs B2C services - are differences purely relates to business process and flow OR are there differences also in technical architecture?
I have some B2B services already exposed to customers who manufacture products and ships to end consumer.
These B2B services are implemented using asp.net web API and is performant enough to handle ...
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Alert System Architecture
I would like to create a system which handles alert messages from various programs and can process those alerts to down-wind consumers via email. This would all be contained over one internal network. ...
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Analytics Architecture for Multiple APIs
We’re building a platform of different APIs (every API is written by different team, different timezone).
We want to implement unified analytics for all of the APIs to have one data lake as a single ...
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