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How to make the common "organization > project > content" conceptual model handle more subdivisions?
I am working on a system of websites and am back to an age-old problem of how to group the content.
In simplest terms, I am wanting to build something like a hierarchical organization of content, ...
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Multithreaded Game Server: Single send() or Many send()s for Game List?
I'm developing a multithreaded game server (C/TCP). I need to send a list of 50-100 available games to a console client.
Option A: Send 50-100 separate messages, using send() for every single ...
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How should I implement System Design patterns in general and when to use these patterns in every aspect? [closed]
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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Is integration-testing all services the best approach?
I am building an API project, where I have a controller called C1, which calls service S1. Within this service, there are multiple method invocations to services S2and S3 and S4, as well as a call to ...
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Mutex protects client list but does not prevent socket closure in multithreaded C server [closed]
I am implementing a multithreaded C server where clients are stored in a linked list of structs. Each struct contains, among other fields, the socket (sk) for communicating with the client. The list ...
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Is there a name for the hierarchy of "trustworthiness" many engineers use while debugging?
I'm looking for a name or attempts to document a particular thought patten used by most experienced engineers when they debug.
Most experienced engineers develop a sense of hierarchy for what is ...
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Is it good practice to check exception messages in unit tests? [duplicate]
Imagine I have a function like this (written in Java):
void sayHello(String firstName, String lastName) {
if (firstName == null) {
throw new IllegalArgumentException("first name is ...
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Where should I store the access token in React?
I'm building a web app using Spring Boot (backend) and React (frontend).
My authentication is based on JWT, with both access token and refresh token.
The refresh token is stored in an HTTP-only ...
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Is it good practice to return ApiResponse from a Spring service layer?
I'm working on a Spring Boot application with a VoucherService and VoucherController. I currently have the service method return an ApiResponse<T> directly, like this:
@Transactional
public ...
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What is a good strategy to avoid creating duplicate profiles for many individuals in a database?
I'm designing an application that is going to receive tens to hundreds of thousands of requests. Users submit requests on behalf of Customers (which are singular persons). Each request will contain ...
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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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Where should authentication data be stored in a modular monolith with multiple authentication strategies? (NestJS)
I’m implementing the authentication module in a modular monolith built with NestJS.
Initial Draft
In the first draft, the User entity included the hashed password, refresh token, and refresh token ...
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Which approach to specifying a database connection in a web API, is preferred?
Where I work, they have never implemented web APIs. At my previous job, which I left 11 years ago, I would write several web APIs to be used for applications, reports, etc. So when I came to this job ...
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Where to initialize clients in C server?
I’m writing a multiplayer server in C using sockets and pthreads.
The project is separated by responsibility:
server.c/.h → networking (socket, bind, listen, accept, thread creation)
player.c/.h → ...
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Should I introduce a controller layer to separate networking from game/player logic in a C server project?
I’m writing a multiplayer server in C using sockets and pthreads.
The project is separated by responsibility:
server.c/.h → networking (socket, bind, listen, accept, thread creation)
player.c/.h → ...
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Finding a subset of vertices in graph
I have a graph: undirected, unweighted, no leaves, no disconnected edges or vertices.
The graph is populated with vertices of 3 types: A, B, C.
Let's say, I hold a vertex of type A, denoted as A0.
I ...
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How should I design a password reset flow when the PasswordService depends on UserRepository (email vs ID)?
I’m working on a three layers architecture backend (Laravel).
Here’s the context:
I have a PasswordService responsible for updating a user’s
password.
and a Otpservice responsible for verifying/...
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How dangerous is storing sensitive information in LocalStorage?
Since I started studying security in web applications, it seems that everyone always says to never store sensitive information (e.g., refresh tokens, access tokens, and so on) due to the risk of ...
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Is a SPA still a SPA if SSR is used?
I’m developing a system with separate front-end and back-end components:
The back-end is already implemented with Node.js and Express, exposing REST APIs.
The front-end must be a private SPA, ...
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Does rate limit on crawler hurt SEO? [migrated]
In our website, we see many crawlers which pretends like human trying get contents. These crawlers are not well known like Google/Bing/Facebook etc. I can identify those crawler's IP and they are ...
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Does it make sense to use next.js only for the front-end?
We need to do the front-end with spa. The question is whether to use a full-stack framework like next.js, but only the front-end part, without server-side components. If I don't use them, could these ...
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How to namespace global function overrides?
In PHP, trim() exists.
By default the second parameter is " \n\r\t\v\x00"
I wish to introduce my own version which doesn't deviate far from the core functionality:
// Trim whitespace in ...
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How can I integrate a library that expects backend events into my own event system? [migrated]
I'm using SDL2 in my game engine and have created custom event types that use the data from SDL_Event. This works well within my own code, but it becomes problematic with ImGui (and other libraries ...
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What does it mean, if a C or C++ header with non-trivial code is LGPL licensed? [migrated]
LGPL has certain requirements for software that uses LGPL libraries. The most common way to satisfy these in otherwise closed-source software is to supply the LGPL library as a dynamic library, which ...
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How do I find what's causing a task to be slow, when CPU, memory, disk and network are not used at 100%?
I'm currently analyzing a process that is considered too slow.
In summary, it's a task that loads a lot of data from Microsoft SQL Server, performs some basic stuff on it, and creates a report. It ...
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Should I instantiate controllers in route modules or use static methods?
I’m building a modular REST API using Node.js + Express + TypeScript.
My controllers are defined as classes. In my route files, I currently create a new controller instance, like this:
import { Router ...
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Why is short polling considered an antipattern for event-sourced systems?
I have an application with very strict requirements around auditing and the "replayability" of user actions. For this reason, I've chosen an event-sourced architecture because of its append-...
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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.
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Does an indentation style which uniquely identifies a column position to its role in the construct it belongs to make Bash code more readable? [closed]
I've just opened a relatively similar question
(why nobody indents Bash?)
on Stack Overflow.
What I'm asking here is whether do you think the facts
there is no type enforcing;
there is no indentation ...
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How to reduce the number of class instances passed to the __init__() method of a Python class?
I have a Python class called FunctionsManager; its __init__() method is the following:
class FunctionsManager:
def __init__(self, instance_class1, instance_class2, ..., instance_classN):
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Automated Testing classes with an injected DbContext [duplicate]
I've been working on an implementation of a service, and have found that there are a number of operations where I need to read from a database to provide a caller with certain data or objects.
In-line ...
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What SOLID principles does the Java List interface challenge?
The Java List<E> interface includes methods, such as add(E) and remove(Object), that work as the names suggest on instances of mutable concrete implementations, such as ArrayList<E> and ...
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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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How to test the parts of an application that cannot run in a test harness
I'm working on a program that runs as a sort of plugin to the Windows UAC prompt (and other similarly difficult environments). The testing situation is a bit abysmal. End-to-end tests are not possible,...
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Does possession of a valid JWT automatically imply the user is authenticated?
I am tasked with implementing authentication and authorization in a distributed environment, so I plan to use JWT.
I get how authorization works with JWT - if the token is not expired, and the ...
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How does a PostgreSQL cursor actually work? What are their tradeoffs?
I'm in charge of developing an application that sometimes needs to process massive amounts of data from a Greenplum (a PostgreSQL-derived) database. The process involves a Java 8 program running on a ...
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Do data stores in a Level 1 DFD have to match the tables in the ERD exactly?
We're developing an anomaly detection web app as a Capstone Project, and we're currently revising our manuscript.
In our last capstone defense, one of our panelists mentioned that the data stores in ...
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Is it okay to mix OOP and modular approaches when building a backend with TypeScript/JavaScript?
I’m designing a backend in TypeScript (could also apply to JavaScript), and I’m wondering about the architectural approach.
Is it better to stick to a single paradigm (e.g., fully object-oriented or ...
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API Design: Should I explicitly check for and throw on nullptr parameters if I have full control?
Say I have the following header
#ifndef WINDOW_HPP
#define WINDOW_HPP
// includes...
namespace window
{
struct Window
{
GLFWwindow *handle = nullptr;
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Is exposing full backend entities to a Vue frontend a bad practice? A case for DTOs?
I am doing the frontend for a Java Spring backend. The project uses JavaFX for the front but I a migrating it for web usage (with VueJS). When I make an API call to retrieve an object, I am receiving ...
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How can I efficiently handle click events and sequentially related operations (like user–URL deactivation) in a scalable URL shortener?
I am learning backend development by building a simple URL shortener project. My goal is to learn backend concepts and try to do things in simple but better ways, keeping scalability and reliability ...
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Software Requirement Specification document "Purpose section"
When we write the "Purpose" section of a SRS document, do we write:
The document purpose?
or
The Software to-be-built purpose?
I have checked some examples and it seems the first one but ...
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Should pagination metadata like totalCount be included in the ETag for cached paginated API responses?
I am currently rethinking my API response schema and caching strategy while implementing ETag-based caching for a paginated REST API (for example, listing places).
Each paginated response looks like ...
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Is there a name for this anti-pattern? (reference to a class member passed to another class method) [closed]
Is there a name for this anti-pattern?
A reference to a class member is being passed to another class method, rather than having the class method set the class member directly.
public class ...
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Single or multiple use cases for alternative actions in the same flow?
I’m modeling a use case diagram for an online marketplace system.
In one of my use cases, the seller can perform three different actions:
Accept an offer → closes the negotiation,
Reject an offer → ...
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How much `auto` is too much when creating utility functions in C++?
How much auto is too much when creating utility functions in C++?
Here's an example. I have a Qt application where, at some point, I need to find what is the maximum value among the integers that are ...
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In an enterprise software team, is it recommended for developers to maintain a business knowledge wiki to understand domain concepts and processes?
I work in an enterprise software team, and I’m exploring ways to help developers better understand the business domain, company processes, and organizational knowledge beyond just technical ...
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How should I model the external entity and actor in my DFDs and UC Diagram for an app used by the QA officer (and possibly other staff) in an agency?
I’m creating a 0- and 1-Level DFD, along with a UC Diagram, for a data cleansing web application for a government agency.
The primary user of the system is the agency’s Quality Assurance (QA) Officer.
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How to design extensible data aggregation code to avoid manual updates in multiple places?
I have a data aggregation function that collects statistics from multiple sources. The problem is that whenever I add a new metric, I need to manually update the code in three different places, which ...
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How do you abstract a platform library like SDL from the graphics api?
I'm creating a basic 3D game in C++ with SDL2 and OpenGL3, and one of my learning goals for this project is to design my code around the ability to swap out SDL or OpenGL. However, the problem I'm ...
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