Application design covers the entire pre-implementation phase of a project and consists in conceptualizing the architecture, its components, the interactions between each component, the data flows, and the processes to implement.
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How should I go about learning a very large and complex application?
Being a young and fairly inexperienced developer recently employed by a "real" software company I'd like some opinions and pointers on how to do the following:
Approaches on how to get familiar with ...
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Is having functionality in DB a road block to scalability?
I may not be able to give the right title to the question. But here it is,
We are developing financial portal for wealth management. We are expecting over 10000 clients to use the application. The ...
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Can it be useful to build an application starting with the GUI?
The trend in application design and development seems to be starting with the "guts": the domain, then data access, then infrastructure, etc. The GUI seems to usually come later in the process. I ...
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How to add image support to client-server database application?
I have an architectural question about a project that I am working on.
Currently it is a simple .NET C# application that runs on several client machines, and communicates with a central MySQL server ...
