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Does the signature of a method create a dependency between the implementation of that method, and the code that invokes it?
I am reading Ousterhout's A Philosophy of Software Design. In Section 2.3, Outserhout writes: The signature of a method creates a dependency between the implementation of that method and the code ...
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Are common design patterns applicable for microservice architectures?
As part of my master's thesis, I am currently working on a framework for building microservice-based service systems. Based on my research, I am able to define important design criteria that the ...
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How to design "define-by-run" API?
I am amazed by the way APIs of some machine learning packages are designed, namely Chainer's and Pytorch's "define-by-run" API. Even Optuna, a hyper parameter tuning library has "define-...
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Is the UML diagram a good solution for project design and documentation? [duplicate]
I want to lead an Angular + NodeJS project. As this is my first experience, I thought about using UML diagram as both designing/architecting the project and also the project's documentation. But I am ...
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What is the difference between the terms 'Virtual' and 'Logical'?
What do people mean when they say 'Logical' in terms like Logical separation, Logical partition, Logical grouping etc. in software ? I know what 'Virtual' means, it means something that does not ...
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How to handle complex business logic permissions in the database?
I have a system in development and part of the system is how permissions are handled, business logic rules for this are very complex so after lots of trials, we couldn't fit them directly in the ...
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Relationship between the concepts "Product Architecture" "Software Architecture" and "Software Stack"
I am doing a report for Uni on an application developed by the team I am in. We have to deliver-among other things- a Technical Solution Document along with the application. One of the sections of ...
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How do you decide to group components in software architectures? [closed]
I am aware that this might be a question with only subjective responses, but i keep coming back to this thought. When you are designing a software's architecture, do you group components by their kind ...
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How should I Implement a general method that could be used across several view models?
Currently I have implemented a method in to a model to take a screen shot like so E.G. Interface public interface ICapture { void CaptureMethod(); } This is the model that implements that interface ...
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Replace Conditional with Polymorphism in a proper way?
Consider two classes Dog and Cat both conforming to Animal protocol (in terms of Swift programming language. That'd be interface in Java/C#). We have a screen displaying a mixed list of dogs and ...
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Maintaining list of items seen by an user
I am developing an app and I need to tackle a problem here. The app is kind of an e-commerce app where each user will be shown a list of items daily. The problem is, I need to keep a track of all the ...
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Is over communication a sign of bad software sometimes? [closed]
Currently, I work in a company that divides the product into squads, and each squad is responsible for a different product (or software). The squad that I've been working takes care of a software that ...
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How to implement linkedin authentication/data sharing with multi party?
Hi I am working on application 2. My application interacts with application 1 and 3. Clients of application 1 need to be to share their linkedin profile information with application 3. I have ...
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What does it mean for two components to be connected?
It is my impression that in software engineering, a connection can mean many things depending on context and the level of abstraction at which some system is considered. I'm surprised no one has asked ...
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About basic ideas of '4+1' view model in software artechiture
I'm new in software engineering and I recently read Philippe Kruchten's famous paper 'Architectural Blueprints—The “4+1” View Model of Software Architecture'. He defined 4+1 views includeing Logical ...
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