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