Backend tech stack?

[whit-colm]

How are we working out the backend with regard to tech used? I am generally comfortable with Golang and Postgresql, but I think I'm the outlier here.

I like Go because it makes concurrency very easy and is built explicitly for backend server kind of stuff. Postgres I'm less intimate with and depending on what library we use for database management in code, it is likely db provider agnostic.

I have some servers at home and can therefore provide a "real" server (a domain and whatnot), although I will need to write some Docker and Kubernetes kit to get that working so it may not be reasonable in a little proof-of-concept project.

Post what your comfortable with, if we want to "search questions" (not required at this stage) we may need someone with skills in Elasticsearch (or preferably an open-source self-hostable platform like MeiliSearch)

Either way, once we figure out what we're building towards, lets make sure we're clear on how we're building it

[whit-colm]

• Django for the general backend code
• MariaDB is a fork of MySQL which should be compatible; different from modern MySQL it's open source.

[whit-colm]

We seem to be working with Django, however not MariaDB, rather the included SQLite database with django