Questions tagged [web-applications]
Web applications are applications that are accessed over the "web", which can mean the Internet, or an internal network (an intranet).
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Server-side ad insertion and video downloaders
Video streaming sites like YouTube are experimenting with server-side ad insertion
Server-side ad insertion differs from normal YouTube ad insertion techniques primarily in how ads are delivered to ...
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Deciding between logic on the front-end or back-end
Before I begin, I want to say I am very new to this and I am a junior but also solo developer with no seniors to ask for guidance. Please feel free to explain to me that I am not approaching it ...
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What is an optimal system design for tracking product views per user that is scalable?
I have a web application that contains products and users. There are 10,000+ products and 100,000+ users to give a sense of the scale that's required.
For some application specific reasons, I need to ...
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Best way to approach connection between game server to client connection with Django web server as middleman
I have a web game design question. I am trying to build a multiplayer web game with non intensive graphics (ex tic tac toe, chess). I am trying to figure out how to take already authenticated users in ...
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Concrete implementation of MVP with "dumb" view
I recently started designing my first MVP-app. I like the idea of having a "dumb" view to be able to cover as much of the code with unit tests.
The app I build will be an app to create ...
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Distributed caching system that scales and enables real-time UI updates?
I have a NextJS app for which I want to cache data from our backend APIs to reduce the load when we have high volumes of concurrent users scrolling through (or search) years-worth of historical data.
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Is it a good idea to serve a Single Page Application as a static site?
I've built a small single-page web application in React and seen that it's possible to serve the app as a static site on something like S3.
Previously, I considered using Nginx, but as this is lower ...
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Processing messages sequentially in SQS FIFO
I need to process status changes related to an entity in a sequential order. Not in parallel.
Will an SQS FIFO Group with MessageGroupId = UserId be enough?
Let's say I have the folowing messages:
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Architectural decision regarding at-most-once semantics cron jobs in distributed systems
please note that while I refer to a specific web application framework in the following, the problem also arises with most other web application frameworks I know so please don't be afraid to reply ...
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Is 10 KB a large amount of data to pass around each time a user makes an API call?
Each time a user of my APP / website interacts with the APP such that it makes an API call to the backend, the backend will make an API call to the mongoDB database to retrieve the document that holds ...
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Do we need APIs to just access databases?
At work, we have a Web application, which makes queries to databases, and I’m asked to determine if using Web APIs could be an added value.
Personally, I’m not convinced it is.
I know Web APIs are ...
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Safe Plugin Architecture for Python Web API
I am making a web application for parameterized procedural world generation. Given the computational resources involved, this application involves a server backend for generating the world with an API ...
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Is it good practice to always use "use strict" in modern web apps? [closed]
I'm learning JavaScript and just came across "use strict". It sounds like to me it should always be in play but me being a beginner I was wondering if there are scenarios/environments when ...
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In a web application, should "private" user images be protected with authentication/authorization?
When creating a web application that will allow users to upload images and mark them as private, should those images be protected by authentication and authorization mechanisms against access by other ...
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Web applications, cookies and GDPR
... or technology stack for compliant web applications.
GDPR among other includes cookies usage defining four cookie types: strictly necessary cookies , preferences cookies, statistics cookies, ...
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