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The high level design and description of software systems frequently characterized by having large quantities of persistent data that is accessed concurrently.

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Staging environment vs Production environment

I work for a company where we build enterprise applications, and we maintain three environments: development (or dev), staging (or stage) and production (or prod). The meaning of dev is intuitive: it's the environment used during development of the…
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Entity Framework with large systems - how to divide models?

I'm working with a SQL Server database with 1000+ tables, another few hundred views, and several thousand stored procedures. We are looking to start using Entity Framework for our newer projects, and we are working on our strategy for doing so. …
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What is enterprise software, exactly?

I don't understand the difference between "normal" software and enterprise software. Even after reading these... "Enterprise Software" on Wikipedia "Enterprise Software Is Sexy Again" on Techcrunch "The Great Enterprise Software Swindle" on…
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What does Robert C. Martin mean by SQL being unnecessary?

I've been reading/watching a lot of Robert C. Martin content. I've come across him saying SQL is unnecessary because of solid state drives. When I search other sources to back this up I get a bunch of random articles describing the difference of SQL…
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How to describe an architectural shift that intentionally breaks REST standards?

I'm proposing changes to a very poorly architected software project that suffers from a multitude of problems. At a high level the project utilizes Angular on the front-end and consumes various REST APIs; which is all great (I don't see the need to…
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Benefits of using separate API and UI servers for Web application

At work, we have a large internal application which has been under development for close to 2 years now; I've just recently joined the project and some of the architecture has me slightly perplexed, so I'm hoping someone here can provide some advice…
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Which platform to choose, Java or .NET?

I am working in a private bank, a leading mid size bank in local market. We are going to create our core banking solution. Existing solution has been developed on Java using IBM Visual Age 4.0. It is very important to discuss architecture first, we…
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Are there any notable examples of business disasters directly attrutible to open-source software?

In "enterprise" environments, I've observed a strong prejudice towards proprietary software. Even in large business that use Java, it is unusual to find MySQL or PostgreSQL, and WebSphere and WebLogic are strongly preferred over JBoss or…
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Service layer returns DTO to controller but need it to return model for other services

Following this post https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21554977/should-services-always-return-dtos-or-can-they-also-return-domain-models and best practices in Software Arch suggestions by Martin…
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How granular should a command be in a CQ[R]S model?

I'm considering a project to migrate part of our WCF-based SOA over to a service bus model (probably nServiceBus) and using some basic pub-sub to achieve Command-Query Separation. I'm not new to SOA, or even to service bus models, but I confess that…
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Composing large Angular 2 app with multiple small apps within

After long 3 months of debate and research in choosing between React (with Redux) and Angular 2, front-end team in my company has concluded to go with Angular 2 (given that it is more suited for our problem). We're into enterprise app business,…
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DDD Bounded Contexts & Domains?

I've been working in a relatively complex application with 10's of database tables (Aggregates, Entities/Value Objects) and applying DDD. At this point it appears to be basically DDD-Lite meaning that there are Application/Domain Services, the…
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De-facto standards for customer information record

I'm currently evaluating a potential new project that involves creating a DB for typical customer information (userid, pwd, first & last name, email, adress, telfnr ...). At this point, requirements are only roughly defined. The customer DB is…
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What is the alternative to an enterprise portal strategy in the Java space?

Disillusionment with the Portal Space I'm seeing a disturbing number of large, enterprise clients who have become disillusioned with their enterprise Portal experience, especially those in the WebSphere Portal Server (WPS) space. Millions have been…
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Versioning REST APIs. Each API has its own version

It's very common to specify the version of REST APIs in the URL, specifically at the beginning of path, i.e. something like: POST /api/v1/accounts GET /api/v1/accounts/details However, I haven't seen any design where the version is associated with…
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