Unanswered Questions
323 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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Graph Database, Storing Transactions
I'm working on getting a handle on Graph Databases (using Neo4j) and am trying to wrap my head around where "the line" is between what makes a good fit for GraphDBs and what should be strictly RDBMSs.
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Designing provisioning strategies
I'm trying to redesign a provisioning application that administrates other application through their REST API.
The application is quite simple, we have groups, we have users and roles and we have a ...
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Data processing pipeline design for processing data
I have a use case for which I need to build a data processing pipeline
Customer contact leads data coming from different data sources like csv, data base, api has to be first mapped to a universal ...
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NoSQL data modelling for multi level nested documents
What kind of NoSql data modelling is best suitable for the following requirement?
This can be visualised (NoSQL-Document) as a Collection of Records where each Record contains nested Documents.The ...
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Python and C++ repository structure
I'm refactoring the directory structure of a large Python repo that has a few dozen C and C++ files littered throughout. Is there a suggested architecture for a Python package that contains C/C++ code ...
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Component needs to invoke class methods and instance methods (via ORM), how to structure
An interesting design choice/discussion has cropped up in code review, and I would like to understand more about proposed solutions. The original review includes re-factoring of a messy piece of code ...
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Expiring counters in Cassandra
So I know that TTL is not available for counters because of design reasons and I've read https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-2103 as well as some other SO questions regarding this but ...
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Calculating the multiplicative inverse of a number in a Galois field
I was told to come here from Stack Overflow because I was "looking for an algorithm". I'm trying to implement it in Python, but there is nowhere on the net that gives a straightforward way for ...
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How to Use Python as a "Macro" runner for a C# Application
I am working on an application that the user may wish to automate some features of (but we don't know what at the moment) I would like to provide them some kind of scripting interface so they can play ...
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Structuring a multi-language project?
I'm working on a project which involves writing code for multiple devices, each in its own language (in particular, Arduino and Python). I want to contain the entire project in a single directory, but ...
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What's the canonical way to store translations of user data?
I've developed some software that allows my users to attach a blurb to some non-language specific information:
Pseudocode model:
item():
ID
creationdate
byline //Only one byline for the object
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How should I store usernames and passwords for user login using php/cassandra?
I am new to NOSQL and Cassandra. I am not sure if I should store usernames and password in Cassandra. If I should, what is the best way to do that? I am getting lots of conflicting ideas from research....
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Where to store formulas and formula "constants"?
I want to implement a database driven payroll system using CSharp. I already did it once, but the implementation sucks so I want to do it again and do it right.
My first thought is to create a static ...
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Confused about how to test Python scripts that install and configure a development setup on OSX (VMware? Docker-OSX?)
In my company we hire engineers for various "disciplines"—iOS, Android, Web, Backend, Data, etc. Engineers follow an onboarding workbook to install what they need for their discipline. iOS ...
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How to structure python modules/packages according to dependecy inversion
If I am working on a project, say it has this file structure:
car/
body/
__init__.py
doors.py
bonnet.py
engine/
cyclinderhead/
__init__.py
pistons.py
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