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Design for a time clocking app

Adekoyejo Akinhanmi — Wed, 20 Jun 2018 06:16:05 +0000

I have been tasked with designing the server side application for a time clocking app. The application is supposed to keep track of when employees resume work each day and when they leave. The bottleneck I am experiencing is that the device for clocking in and clocking out is a fingerprint scanner and only one device is supposed to manage the two actions. For the sake of calculations and all, I intend to keep both data on their individual tables however I do not know how to. In one solution, I intend to create a single endpoint which when called will check if the employee has checked in for that day and then move the log to a different table or if I should keep the data on one table and just do my computations of clock in and clock out.

P.S. I do not also know if the device can be programmed with multiple endpoints.

How does Laravel make methods available?

Adekoyejo Akinhanmi — Sun, 20 May 2018 08:38:36 +0000

I'm relatively new to laravel and I have found that you have access to certain methods in the controllers e.g. response(), auth(), view() etc. I'd like to know how it does that.

Thanks

What's the best way to manage migrations in a microservice architechure?

Adekoyejo Akinhanmi — Wed, 09 May 2018 13:58:31 +0000

I'm thinking of creating a repository that will handle database migrations across the services. Is this efficient?

What are the best practices for sending emails to your app users?

Adekoyejo Akinhanmi — Thu, 08 Mar 2018 07:07:35 +0000

Is it better to send emails async or sync and why?

Microservice data sharing and communication

Adekoyejo Akinhanmi — Fri, 02 Mar 2018 22:39:43 +0000

Hello,

I really want thoughts from anyone who wants to on microservice architecture. It can be language agnostic but it's probably noteworthy that I am using SailsJS on Node Express. I would really appreciate some personal experience as well.

I would like to know:

When a service provides information to other services, how does one manage communication between them? Do you use REST, Message queuing? What's best?
When data needs to be shared across services, for example to prevent sharing of tables, is it good practice to create a relationship table?

Thank you.