Architecture decisions

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On this page, you will find the explanations and justifications for why we choose the technologies, workflows, and designs that we do in relation to the software architecture of Seedcase.

Why Containerization

Containers are a way to bundle a software’s environment to simplify development, installation, and dependency management.

Dec 10, 2022

Richard Ding

Why Django

Web frameworks are designed to support building a web frontend as well as the API layer. Django is a popular and widely used framework.

Mar 22, 2023

Richard Ding

Why Docker as our container software

While there are several container technologies, Docker is one of the most popular and commonly used technologies.

Dec 14, 2022

Richard Ding

Why PostgreSQL

SQL is the backbone of any database system. However there are many variants of SQL. This decision post contains the reasons for using PostgreSQL, which is a powerful and feature-full variant of SQL.

Dec 2, 2023

Kristiane Beicher

Why Python

Python is one of the most common and widely used programming languages. It is used across multiple domains and industries, which means more people would be familiar with using it.

Mar 22, 2023

Richard Ding