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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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 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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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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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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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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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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How Should Services and Presentation Layers Share Data in Web Applications?
Lately, I’ve been studying the fundamentals of Software Architecture for web applications, and I’m a bit unsure about how the data and presentation layers should interact. From what I understand, the ...
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How should we design an IoT platform that handles dynamic device schemas and time-series ingestion at scale (100K writes/min)? [closed]
We’re a small dev team (3 full-stack web devs + 1 mobile dev) working on a B2B IoT monitoring platform for an industrial energy component manufacturer. Think: batteries, inverters, chargers. We have 3 ...
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