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| author | Bryan Newbold <bnewbold@robocracy.org> | 2018-04-25 12:53:08 -0700 |
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| committer | Bryan Newbold <bnewbold@robocracy.org> | 2018-05-09 11:12:16 -0700 |
| commit | 351773cca98ccc61f7844ba9892ee797f1dd3d29 (patch) | |
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diff --git a/fatcat-go/README.md b/fatcat-go/README.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..ea1166ce --- /dev/null +++ b/fatcat-go/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ + +This folder contains source for the fatcat API daemon ("fatcatd"), written in +golang. + + +## Structure + +fatcatd is essentially just glue between two declarative schemas: + +- a postgres-flavor SQL database schema +- an OpenAPI/Swagger REST API definition + + +## Simplifications + +In early development, we'll make at least the following simplifications: + +- authentication (authn and authz) are not enforced and don't have user + interfaces. actual authentication will be eased in via a microservice and/or + oauth to gitlab/github/orcid.org +- "extra" metadata is stored in-entity as JSONB. In the future this might be + broken out to a separate table +- libraries won't be vendored; in the future they will be via a git submodule |