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📅 February 21, 2020

Middle Tier Architecture – Designing The Business Rules

We have looked at a broad range of topics this season. However, it is time for us to tackle the middle tier architecture. Thus, we need to consider process steps (or flow) and look for commonality among the problems we…

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📅 February 19, 2020

Architectural Documentation – Communicate Your Decisions

At some point in your project, architectural documentation becomes an essential piece of the deliverables. This material is often a set of diagrams and bullet points. However, there is more that we need to include. A good set of deliverables…

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📅 February 17, 2020

Cohesion or Coupling – Essential Architecture Decisions

A critical design decision in the object-oriented world is whether to choose cohesion or coupling. These two approaches are not mutually exclusive. However, it is rare to see a mix of the two. Therefore, this decision in the architecture will…

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📅 February 14, 2020

Class Architecture And General Grouping of Features

Object names and namespaces are just the beginning of creating a class architecture. We need to consider globally available values, data hiding, abstraction, and how to group features. The old “is-a” and “has-a” questions are essential cogs in building out…

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📅 February 12, 2020

Session Management – Architecting State Data

Most modern business applications have some state or context. This model can be easy to implement in a stand-alone application. However, multi-user applications like web sites can be a challenge when you consider session management. While security is often a…

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📅 February 10, 2020

Application Programming Interface (API) Solutions Architected

One of the most substantial challenges in system development is the application programming interface. The result is (ideally) a stable and well-defined interface for your system. That can be a struggle when your solution is not exactly stable nor well-defined. …

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