docs(architecture): add default web application stack guidance#71
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| - **Backend / API:** [FastAPI](https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/) (Python) | ||
| - **Database:** [PostgreSQL](https://www.postgresql.org/) | ||
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| This is a default, not a mandate. But the default exists for a reason: shared tooling, transferable knowledge across teams, easier code review, and lower onboarding cost enable better engineer fungibility across repositories. |
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Noting that this assumes python, rather than other languages that the project might want to use.
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That's a feature, not a bug :)
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We should be targeting this stack (and Python) as a default for SPD. For both internal and contracted work.
A great counter-example of this is the PACTA web application built by Silicon Ally, which is written in Go (a language that precisely 0 of our engineers knows): https://github.com/RMI-PACTA/app
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Or any of the demos I wrote in Ruby. Definitely did not help me sell those ideas :-)
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architecture/web_stack.mdestablishing React + FastAPI + PostGreSQL as the default stack for new web applications at RMIuv,ruff,pytest,Alembic, etc.RMI/stitchas a working example