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What do you call application modules that are responsible for business logic? (programming.dev)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Somewhere between API resources, queue workers, repositories, clients and serializers there is a class of ... classes/modules that does the needful. Gun-to-my-head, I would call them "services" but I'm looking for a less overloaded term. Maybe capabilities? Controllers? Pick a term from the business domain? What do you call them?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

It's not that universal, but we have named a few things "Engines", for example Balancing Engine. We also use services, but they are actually independent programs that performs jobs. Engine are used in other places, such as the ViewModels, or in the services.

We put them in the DomainModel project which most things reference though. That's were most basic functionality and shared resources end up if they are used across Client/Service/Backend projects. So Domain / DomainModel might be a thing to use as well, if you want a specific namespace for that kind of use.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Thanks for that, I think Engines is winning in my mind so far!