Questions tagged [architecture]
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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UML Sequence Diagram: User interaction with a nested Form Component vs Page container
I have a Next.js application where a Page (page.tsx) renders a nested Form Component (AddStaff.tsx). When a user fills out the form and clicks 'Submit', who is the direct actor in a Sequence Diagram?
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Best Practices for Secure Web App Admin Console
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For a Web app using React/NextJS/Supabase, hosted on Vercel, what design pattern follows architectural and security best practices when designing an admin console? The console must serve as a ...
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UML Use Case Diagram: Should different external APIs be modeled as separate actors? [duplicate]
I’m modeling a use case diagram for a real estate search application.
In my system, I use two different external services for geolocation features:
OpenStreetMap (used in the frontend to display maps)
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Node.js worker pools & NUMA: Balancing numactl compute binding with NAS first-touch data locality in a distributed scheduler
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I am building DFPS 2.0 (Distributed File Processing System), a distributed job orchestration engine written in Node.js. The system has two coordinator layers:
Main Coordinator (MC) — ...
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Ideas on how to implement a simple and performant conveyor belt system for a 2D automation game?
Im trying to make a simple 2d automation/factory game, and was wondering on how to design my conveyor belt system. I want it to be simple as possible.
My current idea is to organize every connected ...
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Architectural patterns for multiplexing multi-protocol TCP and routing connectionless UDP behind a strict single-IP NAT
Context and Problem Statement
I am designing a routing architecture for a bare-metal edge host residing behind a restrictive NAT router (a single public IPv4 address). This scenario is common in ...
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How to catch up with a fast evolving codebase with AI First Software development?
After a couple of months using AI tools for programming, and improving how to do it, I started feeling a bit left behind in my codebase. Hence came back to Stackoverflow :)
Like I manage to do a half ...
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What are the key architectural differences between microservices and modular monoliths, and when should each be used?
What is the difference in design (architecture) between microservices and modular monoliths?
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How Messengers like Telegram handles big chats
I would like to ask a genuine question about how real-world apps like Telegram can handle big chats (they have 200k users per chat limit). Why am I asking?
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MessageApi - for simplicity, ...
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Proper way to handle \n and string termination in a C multi-threaded TCP server using recv
I am developing a multi-threaded TCP server in C for a simple tris game. I am using pthread to handle multiple clients. When a client sends a command like "CREATE" or "JOIN", I use ...
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User input validation: which app layer should do it? [duplicate]
Which application layer(s) should be responsible for user input validation? I think there are two schools of thought:
The frontend should make no assumptions as to what constitutes valid data, the ...
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Why are modern AI systems (like Gemini or Claude Code) still using UUIDv4 instead of the more index-friendly UUIDv7 for chat messages? [closed]
Given that these AI tools often handle massive streams of messages and require low-latency retrieval for long context windows, why isn't UUIDv7 the "default" choice in their public APIs?
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Architecture for shared UI components in a large frontend monorepo
I’m working on a very large frontend project organized as a single monorepository.
We have a components/ directory that contains 30+ shared UI components. These components are used across a large ...
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Does modern isolation techniques help reduce contention for highly contended counter updates?
We maintain counters in a relational database where each incoming request increments or decrements a counter, subject to a maximum limit.
Throughput is 300 requests per second, and many (or all) ...
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Data modelling for multi-dimensional data
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Offer entity - is discount, start and endTime.
id - offer_id
discount - 50
startTime - 1731921333
endTime - 17391888313
Payment method - A bunch of prepaid payment options for purchase, e....
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