Questions tagged [large-scale-project]
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Selecting a large set of information from a database
So this is a topic I have never really tackled, so bare with me as I try to describe my issue and the scenario. I have an API endpoint in my service that sends emails to a bunch of users. The set of ...
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How to estimate scaling up costs/resources-needed of a project? [closed]
Let's consider an entrepreneur decides to create a new company like Airbnb, Netflix, etc. The problem is about the software part. He doesn't know how long it takes to create the mobile/web app? How ...
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Code review patterns for multiple teams working on a single product
We're scaling out development on a single product from a single team to multiple teams. What are the patterns to ensure coding style, patterns and technology is used consistently? Is there one person ...
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Design Question: Reject Requests at Scale
Usecase: TeamA: Adds 5000 IDs to a blacklist per day and notifies other teams by publishing an SNS message per ID added that all other Teams listen to. TeamB: Gets 4K TPS to its API, and if a given ...
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Setting up mathematical computations to run in the background and/or on multiple devices [closed]
I'm mainly a mathematician, and I am currently doing research into something that I would need to compute. Using basic Octave or Python commands makes the application unresponsive. However, I have ...
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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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What's the practical development cycle of a large project when a full build is prohibitively long
Projects like webkit, Linux kernel and many others take over ten minutes if not hours for a full build. What's the practical development cycle for these large projects? Specifically, how does a ...
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How to measure the complexity in practice in your large software project?
In university, at our algorithms courses, we learn how to precisely compute the complexity of various simple algorithms that are used in practice, such as hash tables or quick sort. But now in a big ...
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In-Source Build vs. Out-Of-Source Build
In my (primarily C++) development, I have long adhered to using out-of-source builds. That is, my source usually sits in a /project/src directory and the builds live in a /project/build/bin/release, /...
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How to adapt the architecture of a website and have suitable hosting along with it to meet increasing users? [closed]
Say you start a web site on shared hosting and it increases in popularity which might cause it to become unavailable as the number of accesses increases. So as a developer how do I figure out when ...
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monorepo - Single monorepo for multiple large-scale, company-sized projects
I'm in need of some advice before going foward. I want to build several large scale projects, like a marketplace product, and a few domain-specific products and libraries. The products may or may not ...
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How is continuous integration organized in large companies?
In my company, it's common not to do any intermediate build to check how each feature/bugfix branch is merged in dev. There is only daily build, which always elicit a lot of test fails and build ...
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How can I manage the code base of significantly complex software?
I often create programs both for myself and others using various object-oriented programming languages. When doing so, they are usually relatively small (a few thousand lines at most). Recently, ...
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How do I manage a large state graph when building a scaleable finite state machine?
Lately I've been working on a project that involves parsing a toy domain-specific-language. While building it out, I realized that an efficient way to handle parsing tokens would be to represent the ...
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Best solution to authorize that a user is only allowed to modify/act with their own resources in a REST API
Background: Currently in the process of building out a REST API, using node w/express and it is consumed by a mobile app and eventually a (modern browser based) website. I'm trying to identify the ...
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