MILESTONE: Choose a tech stack

[jeturcotte]

• REQ: We must have a database technology (fewer is better, but not STRICTLY one alone.)
  • NOTE: PostgreSQL is it... some either 10 or 11 from the sounds of it.
• REQ: We must have a cacheing technology
• REQ: We must choose a deployment architecture
• REQ: We must choose an API standard
• REQ: We must choose an authentication standard
• REQ: We must choose a primary API engine language (again, not strictly one, but as few as possible)
• REQ: We must choose a UI engine

[jeturcotte]

To help propel people, I will itemize MY preferences:

• MariaDB (sql is fiiiiine and maria is free from oracle machinations.) I'd also happily explore Neo4j, but am not comfortable enough to actually recommend it outright.
• Redis seems obvious to me, here.
• I suggest service oriented and docker/kubernetes facilitated and deployable by anyone who wants to run a local/regional node for a few bucks a month off anything like openshift or heroku or aws or azure whatever they want. Scale by free distribution and collaborative standards rather than centralized expense.
• I'm happy with REST and GRPC
• OAuth?
• If it were just me on my own, I'd use perl's mojolicious. I ASSUME most folk in this group would prefer django or flask, which I'm not interested in fighting about.
• Not a VERY strong decision... presumably angular or react.