Questions tagged [architecture]
The high-level design and description of a software system. Architectural design distills away details of implementations, algorithms, and data representation to concentrate on the interaction of "black box" components.
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Best architecture for looping audio playback on the web [closed]
Best architecture for looping audio playback on the web
I'm building a simple web-based audio streaming system that continuously plays a long audio file (several hours in duration) in an infinite loop—...
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How Should Services and Presentation Layers Share Data in Web Applications?
Lately, I’ve been studying the fundamentals of Software Architecture for web applications, and I’m a bit unsure about how the data and presentation layers should interact.
From what I understand, the ...
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Is it a violation of the three-tier architecture if I inject one service into another inside the logic layer?
I am a beginner programmer with little experience in building complex applications. Currently I'm making a messenger using Python's FastAPI for the back-end. The main thing that I am trying to achieve ...
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How should we design an IoT platform that handles dynamic device schemas and time-series ingestion at scale (100K writes/min)? [closed]
We’re a small dev team (3 full-stack web devs + 1 mobile dev) working on a B2B IoT monitoring platform for an industrial energy component manufacturer. Think: batteries, inverters, chargers. We have 3 ...
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Best practices for serving encrypted files in Laravel?
I'm building a Laravel-based web application that functions as a personal online photo archive. Each user uploads and manages their own private collection of images. These images are encrypted at rest ...
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Ensuring proper initialization order in event-driven C++ applications
I'm working on a C++ system where I have a concept of a "Board" object. Each board can have services attached (e.g. UpdateService, LoggingService, etc.).
I'm trying to design how these ...
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Does high quality software really use plain names like `Employee` to describe domain objects?
I am asking because we make games and each domain object most likely has different representations in different layers of the application. You have domain model, you may have some application-level ...
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Managing Growth in Microservice Architecture: Is Modular Monolith the Solution?
Our team of 5 members are managing a microservice architecture that currently includes around 200 Java Spring boot microservices, with approximately 50 new services being added each year. We follow ...
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Extending a complex codebase without breaking things [duplicate]
I have to extend a complex piece software and I wonder if I should make the changes directly "where they belong", or if I should try to not touch existing stuff and "plug-in" the ...
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Optimal way to avoid iterating through each row in a dictionary of data/arrays?
I have an excel macro that imports daily share price files, and finds the highest price for a share after a given date.
Each of these daily stock price files has ~1000 rows of data. Currently I have ...
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How can I get started on refactoring my code base?
https://github.com/Darkroman/PK-Battle-Simulator/
Over some time I made a fully working (text based) Pokemon Battle Simulator in C++ as I was learning the language on my off time. At the moment I have ...
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Designing Password Recovery for an Offline-First Password Manager
I'm designing a password manager app for Android that prioritizes offline first security the idea is to store the vault locally and avoid any cloud dependencies during normal usage.
However, I'm ...
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Refactoring a legacy codebase with a god Repository and incomplete Clean Architecture [duplicate]
I'm currently working on a large legacy project that tried to implement Clean Architecture combined with MVVM, but unfortunately didn't fully adhere to the principles.
One major problem:
The ...
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Separate packages for mocks?
Say I have a package which handles sending emails over SMTP. Many of the apps I build use it.
For unit testing purposes, I create a mock of the email service from that package which logs raw mail ...
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How does Object-Oriented Design fit into N-Layered Architecture?
Normally an N-Layered application is structured as follows.
User Interface layer
Business Logic Layer
Data Access Layer
DAL contains objects (data containers) representing business entities. The BLL ...