Essays on software design topics

These are essays prepared by students of Advanced software design course.

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2. Taxonomy of product requirements elicitation and development methods
3. Rationale and justification for different job and user story modeling
4. Efficiency and effectiveness of different methods in customer development
5. Unresolved challenges in different UX and customer development methods
6. Best methods for checking and measuring quality of product requirements
7. Recommended practice for capturing non-functional requirements
8. How do we scale UX and customer development to large systems?
9. Definitions of product and system quality in the industry standards
10. Quantitative approaches to prioritize and evaluate product features
11. The Significance of Non-Functional Requirements in Product Development
12. Verification of software requirements with simulation
13. How to develop good product features?
14. Best methods for checking and measuring quality of product requirements

1. Evolution of domain modeling approaches and tools
2. Role of Domain Specific Languages in Domain Analysis
3. Strategic domain driven design and enterprise architecture
4. Industry recognized challenges in domain driven design practice
5. Language-Oriented Development as a Software Engineering Method
6. POJO, POCO, POPO - when anemic domain model is preferrable?
7. Qualities of a 'good' domain specific language

1. Metamodels for low-code and no-code platforms
2. Practical uses of modeling in enterprises
3. Modern structured modeling approaches for software systems
4. Alternatives to UML2 notation for domain driven design

1. Ontologies, topic maps, ER diagrams and other methods for knowledge description
2. Data modeling languages for data warehouses and data lakes
3. ORM' for NoSQL: main challenges and solutions
4. Practical knowledge-based modeling in healthcare

1. Object-oriented vs. async design - friends or foes?
2. modularization_techniques_in_functional_programming
3. How do you apply Math to software design?
4. Beyond GoF: the most important design patterns after 30 years
5. Better languages or better design patterns - a way to effective development?

1. Distributing databases with sharding and replication – why and when
2. Can RDBMS scale under load? A survey of the case studies

1. A comparison of load balancing approaches in k8s clusters on-cloud
2. Strategies for evolving microservices achitectures
3. Intelligent monitoring for MSA, what are the design choices?
4. The best container hosting platform for the private cloud
5. Connecting the domains: patterns for strategic DDD
6. How can we secure an MSA and manage access efficiently?

1. Challenges in architecting dApps for blockchain platforms