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Application architecture for subscriber based system

I am planning on building a system where users "subscribe" to "records". Records are updated on a schedule, several times a day. When records are updated, the user should be notified that these ...
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How to manage automated emails sent from a web application

I am designing a web application and I am wondering how to design the architecture to manage sending automated emails. Currently I have this feature build into my web app and the emails are sent ...
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How are programming teaching websites built? [duplicate]

For those that don't know I'm referring to codeacademy or codeschool type of websites, where the user inputs ruby/python/whateverlanguage, and gets back the result evaluated. Is the code input ...
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In-house SMS (using a SIM card) receiving and sending?

My needs are very simple but I don't know the terms I should be Googling for: I need to occasionally send a SMS to a machine and that machine is going to answer with another SMS to the number that did ...
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Securely changing system configuration from a web application

I need to write a web application that acts as a configuration interface for some system services. Meaning it will probably change some kind of configuration file and has to restart (linux) system ...
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Reuse Business Logic between Web and API

We have a website and two mobile apps that connect through an API. All the platforms do the exactly same things. Right now the structure is the following: Website. It manages models, controllers, ...
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The architecture and technologies to use for a secure, fast, reliable and easily scalable web application

^ For actual questions, skip to the lists down below I understand, that his is a vague topic, but please, before you turn the other way and disregard me, hear me out. I am currently doing research ...
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Running cherryPy on apache or not?

seems the cherryPy have a standalone web server, is this suggested to deploy the application on Apache Server? or just use the standalone one? If so, any pros and cons between these decision? Thanks.
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How to roll out a feature to only a select few users

A good example of what I'm trying to ask about would be Facebook's new Timeline feature. In the beginning, only a select few were allowed access to timeline. As the feature became more solidified in ...
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Architecture guidelines for a “single page web-app”

I'm going to start a side project to build a "single page" web application. The application needs to be real-time, sending updates to the clients as changes happen. Are there any good resources for ...
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Would this be a good web application architecture?

My problem Our MVC based framework does not allow us to cache only part of our output. Ideally we want to cache all static and semi-static parts, and run dynamic parts. In addition, we need to ...
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N-Tiered Web App Using JQuery/ASP.NET Web Services

For fairly small, non-complex web applications, we have utilized jQuery to make asynchronous calls to an ASP.NET web service for interaction with our Sqlite data store. This has proven to be a pretty ...
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Which technologies should be considered for a new social web application

Which technology / architecture would you recommend for a startup planning to write a social web app? I see the following candidates, and would like your opinion, as I do think this is the right ...
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How bad is to have many directories where to save uploaded data instead of one?

I am using the following structure to save the images that users are uploading for their items: Images User_dir1 Item_dir1 Picture_file1 Picture_file2 User_dir2 Item_dir2 Picture_file3 ...