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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Why doesn't layered architecture translate easily to tiered architecture?
Basically, I'm trying to understand why layered and tiered are that different, and why they don't translate easily to each other.
I understand that layered could be 3 separate class files for UI, BL ...
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Not defined variables display [migrated]
So here is an issue:
We have a pretty large CMS for fleets and sometimes people leave some optional input fields as blank, displaying that information on the screen really doesn't help anyone, and ...
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Re-architecting a classic inheritance design
I have the opportunity to rewrite a core piece of a project (C#) that is inheritance-heavy and feels increasingly restrictive in how it is designed. The scenario is pretty simple, imagine an ...
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Writing data driven reflection based tests to ensure design completeness [closed]
When writing software I'm often forced to at some point to make a decision that involves a design pattern of "by convention" naming and behavioral patterns. This normally makes me feel kind of slimy ...
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Re-architecting a classic inheritance design [duplicate]
I have the opportunity to rewrite a core piece of a project that is inheritance-heavy and feels increasingly restrictive in how it is designed. The scenario is pretty simple, imagine an application ...
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How to optimise an sentiment analysis algorithm for larger data sets?
I am a noob to sentiment analysis and found a good resource for Bayesian Opinion Mining and a way to make it self improving. I was wondering though, if the optimum analysis is dependent upon the ...
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Find common functionalities or functions between 2 programs
I've been facing a problem recently, in which I want to optimize two programs.
For that, I wanted to create some kind of "Common Interface" which I could reuse between my two programs.
However, the ...
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How to train yourself to avoid writing “clever” code?
Do you know that feeling when you just need to show off that new trick with Expressions or generalize three different procedures? This does not have to be on Architecture Astronaut scale and in fact ...
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When is a Use Case layer needed?
In his blog post The Clean Architecture Uncle Bob suggests a 4-layer architecture. I understand the separation between business rules, interfaces and infrastructure, but I wonder if/when it's ...
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What UML diagram should I use to show a platform's architecture?
I have been learning UML and have a basic understanding now, but I keep seeing these sort of high level architecture diagrams. Here's one from Microsoft:
Source: A bad picture is worth a thousand ...
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Extending Composite Structure model generally/in Enterprise Architect
I'm currently on a project, which integrates domain specific techniques in the modelling tool Enterprise Architect through UML Profiles.
The domain specfic model almost matches the structure of the ...
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Rules of thumb regarding breaking into sub-projects
We are building a Game Client and Server, our system is broken into four major projects: (Client and Server, Shared Interfaces, Source Art). In addition, both client and server have a set of libraries ...
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Underlying infrastructure behind something similar to Code School [duplicate]
I'm working on a venture similar to Code School: it features a code editor (currently, i'm using ACE Editor) and a real-time "Run" option. I have no idea how Code School works with this... i thought ...
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Is there a better way of handling access control logic instead of it being in the UI?
Through most of my dev experience, I've never had to deal with much variety of access control architectures.
They've all been pretty straight forward:
Group [Create, Update, Delete]
- User 1
...
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Showing a view from the Service.contracts project, how to avoid this
my dto's are located in the contracts project, layer between UI and Service
I have an observable collection of thes objects loaded in a grid in my view. A checkbox is binded to a boolean value of the ...
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How to refactor n-tier into vertical slices architecture
What work path do there exist to identify reasonable vertical slices of a classic n-tier platform code base and infrastructure (enterprise size)? Regardles of refactor or a new solution I think there ...
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What do I call a non-MVC pattern?
I am finishing my project and in my thesis I am explaining why I used an MVC pattern to build my website, and have stated the advantages of designing it this way.
However, if I had not used MVC and ...
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How is transparency defined in context of the broker architecture? [closed]
I would like to know how transparency is defined, and what is the measurement for this in the context of a broker architecture.
For example :
from a developer point of view, [in the broker ...
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Defining a status between last check and now
I have sets of probing data from an internal monitoring tool which represent the availability of different services (databases, webservices and so on).
Now my task is to visualize this data and I ...
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Are There Any Examples of Uncle Bob's High-Falutin' Architecture?
I just finished watching this presentation by Uncle Bob (as well as his "Architecture" section of his "Clean Code" videos), but I'm left wondering:
Are there any examples out there of applications ...
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Newcomer to software development - how to close my gaps? [closed]
I used to study business informatics but found, after an internship, a job as software developer (Ruby on Rails).
My problem is that I am, compared to most of my colleges who directly studied ...
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Building a WordPress-like filter system
This question is purely hypothetical. I use WordPress a lot and know the filter structure from an implementation point of view. I'm now wondering what's the best way to implement such a structure (not ...
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From programmer to architect [closed]
I'm a web developer in a fairly disorganized enterprise (we don't have an architect around, nor documentation or even plans) and I would like to become a software architect. My goal is to be able to ...
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serving up future-proof kinfolk - extensible contract interfaces [closed]
Ok, I have this human here, but what can it do, how would you discover its special abilities? And when you find out what kind of expert you've got then how would you actually make use of its unique ...
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Can I use Visual Studio 2010 Architectural features to enforce design on code, without feature packs?
I am studying Visual Studio 2010's architectural tools for application lifecycle management.
After we have sketched some modeling diagrams, we wonder now how should be the natural workflow to convert ...
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Javascript Architectural Model
Are there any obvious flaws to this OO architectural model which I intend to implement using javascript? It is similar to the MVP model but instead the role of the model is broken down into three ...
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Is a grid or p2p architecture a subset of a broker architecture?
Is a grid or p2p architecture a subset of a broker architecture?
what are the key features that make these similar or distinct?
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Plugin Architecture: How to Handle Databases and Logging?
I am in the process of designing an architecture for a plugin based application and I have some questions about how to handle database access and logging. The goal of my application is to allow a ...
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Python simulation-scripts architecture
Situation:
I've some scripts that simulate user-activity on desktop. Therefore I've defined a few cases (workflows) and implemented them in Python. I've also written some classes for interacting with ...
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How to properly diagram lambda expressions or traversals through them in Architecture Explorer?
I'm exploring a piece of code in Architecture Explorer in Visual Studio 2010 to study the relations between methods. I noticed a strange behavior.
Take the following source code. It generates a hello ...
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How does advertisement and discovery work in JXTA2?
in my coursenotes the following diagram is featured.
In plain english, How does advertisement and discovery work in JXTA2? what is the advantage of rendevous p2p with p2p? why would this be ...
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HDF vs NOSQl solutions
Hi I get a look in some scientific data stored in HDF5 format and I was wondering if there is any NoSQl solution that will reach the same performance in read/write as HDF5 .
The data of my example ...
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IEC 62304 compliant Architecture definition
I am currently tasked with creating a software architecture for compliance with IEC 62304. These regulations are notoriously vague, and do not provide any real substance as to what is required for a ...
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Data transfer between“main” site and secured virtual subsite
I am currently working on a C# ASP.Net 3.5 website I wrote some years ago which consists of a "main" public site, and a sub-site which is our customer management application, using forms-based ...
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Use of Service Bus in a Pub-Sub Engine
In one of our projects, we've built a Publisher - Subscriber Engine on Oracle Service Bus. The functionality being a series of events are published and subscribers (JMS queues) receive these whenever ...
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Naming a class that does Importing and exporting of data
I've been thinking about creating a class that handles importing and exporting of data, and I feel that naming it FooImporterExporter might look too long, I wan't to see if there's a name convention ...
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What is a good analogy to explain how software development is different than building a bridge? [duplicate]
If you had a manager, a couple of levels above you, tell you that building software is like building a bridge, how would you respond to that?
If this manager truly believes that we should be able to ...
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Architecting Python application consisting of many small scripts
I am building an application which, at the moment, consists of many small Python scripts.
Each Python script processes items from one Amazon SQS queue. Emails come into an initial queue and are ...
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Architecting persistence (and other internal systems). Interfaces, composition, pure inheritance or centralization?
Suppose that you need to implement persistence, I think that you're generally limited to four options (correct me if I'm wrong, please)
Each persistant class:
Should implement an interface ...
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In a module-core program, how should modules interact with each other?
Short background: I'm using MEF/C# for developing a program that has one core (singleton) and multiple MEF parts (I call them modules, each module is a separate assembly with one class that contains ...
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We have a large Ruby on Rails application (25 million monthly users), our management decided to rewrite in Node.js, am I crazy?
Please tell me if:
Node.js will make our site faster!
Node.js will consume fewer server resources, we can save money!
Node.js will make us more productive!
Node.js means we can share client and ...
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Architecture suggestions [closed]
I'm writing a small application that will reset the entire “environment” consisting of various machines and applications.
Machine names are added via config file - this is read, the appropriate ...
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Is MVC ever considered/applied system-wide?
I was having a discussion with a colleague and he bought up the topic of MVC and the use of ViewModels in ASP.NET MVC.
The discussion was that, in an n-layer architecture, the UI, Business Layer and ...
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How can I justify a technology over another? (Java over .NET)
We are working in a Java/.NET company and my team and I are planning a project for a client.
One of the requirements is that the project has to be done in .NET
I've asked about this requirement, ...
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Multiprocess RPC Architecture Design
I am currently working on a project that has client applications communicating with a server process. The client applications could be local to the same machine as the server process, on the same ...
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Functional Reactive/Relational Programming – Is there a difference?
I've been using Reactive Cocoa (by GitHub), a Functional Reactive Programming API for use with the Cocoa libraries for a while now, but have just read "Out of the Tar Pit", the paper that supposedly ...
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Web application (Spring, JSF) forks, how to reuse existing code for subprojects?
my question is going to be somewhat philosophical and "architectural oriented" so bear with me.
Right now we have existing Java web application built on top of Spring and JSF(facelets) with maven. ...
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Identifying Users
We have a site that allows users to generate their own content. If users generate illegal content, we'll be submitting a report to the authorities. In the event that we do have to report a user, we ...
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Where to put Administrative Features
Right now we have our administrative features located at www.mysite.com/admin. It is locked down by UN/PW but it still seems like an insecure place to have it. Is there a better place to put it? ...
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Designing a Content-Based ETL Process with .NET and SFDC
As my firm makes the transition to using SFDC as our main operational system, we've spun together a couple of SFDC portals where we can post customer-specific documents to be viewed at will. As such, ...
