Questions tagged [architectural-patterns]
An architectural pattern is a general reusable solution related to the high level structure of software systems. For reusable solutions having a more specific scope (e.g. individual classes/components and their interactions), prefer the tag 'design-patterns'.
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How should I implement System Design patterns in general and when to use these patterns in every aspect?
I have been learning a lot of new things lately, DevOps, Cloud Computing, Monitoring, and Security. I have been facing my problems dead on, but System Design seems to be a bit complicated. I have ...
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How to implement introspection of user-defined data in my software renderer
I am in the process of writing my own software renderer. I am currently working on setting up a shader system that allows users of the renderer to create their own Vertex Shader and Fragment Shader. ...
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How should domain models be designed — rich domain models with encapsulated logic vs. anemic models with separate service/util layers?
I'm learning Domain-Driven Design (DDD) and studying different architecture patterns, and I’ve come across two seemingly conflicting design philosophies around domain modeling.
1. Rich Domain Model ...
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Patterns for background apps using system tray and dialogs
I've had reasons to design an application that should 1) run in the background to show status and notifications, with 2) dialogs showing details and configuring the app through more powerful widgets. ...
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Should board class handle LEDs/alarms when entering Maintenance mode, or should this be handled externally via events?
I'm designing a system that manages multiple hardware boards. Each board has a class that provides core functionality, such as:
Device enumeration
Capability enumeration (power management, polling, ...
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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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Relationship between monolithic architecture and n-tier
I am confused about the relationship between monolithic and n-tier architecture (I have only analyzed 1, 2, 3 levels and tiers).
Since n-tier architecture divides the application into logical layers (...
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Can we consider each microservice as a “small monolith” application? [closed]
I'm just getting started with software architectural patterns.
I first analyzed the difference between monolithic architecture and microservice architecture and I had a doubt.
Below I report the ...
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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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Holding state in a service class in MVVM
In my SwiftUI app, I have a UpNextManager view model and a service class called UpNextService which contains many methods to read up next items from disk, write them to disk and much more. The service ...
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LabVIEW Object-Oriented Scripting Engine
This question is for LabVIEW 2019. Highlighting that fact first because some of the "standard" object-oriented techniques like interfaces, type inference, template specialization, etc. aren'...
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In a python project, when should you use __init__.py, __main__.py, and just normal .py?
Say I am making a pdf editor app with the following structure:
├── main.py
├── 📂 drawing_functions/
├── 📂 util/
├── 📂 GUI/
└── 📂 document_handling/
Each of these folders have a collection of ...
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How to untangle bounded contexts after a team ownership reorganization?
This is inspired by Eric Evans' presentation about bounded contexts when doing Domain driven design.
In his presentation he presents a case where a bank has initially 2 teams that manage 2 bounded ...
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Moving from 3-tier architecture to clean architecture
Generally, for a simple project: how do you move from 3-tier architecture to clean architecture? What I'm trying to do here is to get a feedback on how would the developer which understands 3-tier ...
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REST API with swappable backends
What would be the best way to have a single REST API but with multiple "backends" (Not sure if this is the correct terminology)? Currently we have a basket/cart API that handles product ...
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