The Lodge Project bootstrap definitions

[kaioteoi]

Context

• Before anything else, we must define the foundation that will compound this platform.

  Detail

  The scope of this Issue is to answer the following questions:

• [x] What kind of features will the platform provide? (e.g.: comments, authors, chat, collaborations)
• [ ] Which are the components that exists within each feature? (Object Oriented like, e.g: Comment, Author, Post)
• [x] How each component is connected to each other?
• [x] Can those be grouped on subdomains?
• [x] Can we break up those subdomains into separate services? Or keep'em together?
• [x] What other non-functional components are associated with the platform? (content crawling, security, authentication)
• [x] [Optional] Shall we discuss about the Design as well? (e.g: UI wireframes, color palette, sound design, visual component base styles)

[kaioteoi]

An initial idea of the macro architecture:

[kaioteoi]

How each component is connected to each other?

We roughly have a streamline of information from input to output with some processing in the middle. The main components that might require some effort are Insert API and Search API.

Can those be grouped on subdomains?

Yes. In the diagram they're represented as two macro groups Inbound and Data platform, there's even more options of grouping to be explored within each subdomain.

Can we break up those subdomains into separate services? Or keep'em together?

There's no explicit reason for keepin'em together. We have clear responsibilities for each domain.

What other non-functional components are associated with the platform? (content crawling, security, authentication)

Content crawling was specified as one of the inbound processes. Security and authentication are topics that can be discussed in the future without any drawbacks of not deciding anything so early.

[Optional] Shall we discuss about the Design as well? (e.g: UI wireframes, color palette, sound design, visual component base styles)

This discussion can occur in parallel to the Domain discussion, not here.

[kaioteoi]

As per #3, roughly the main features of the platform will be:

• Website
• Search ~API~ Service
  • Search text parser
  • Database that supports text indexing search
• Insert ~API~ Service
  • Provider plugin services

Edit: changed from API to Service, as the component doesn't have to be necessarily a API to fulfill the purpose.