Settle on tech stack about coastal-valuation HOT 5 CLOSED

I think we can continue to stay on the Google Cloud Platform. Distinguishing the GAE from the rest of GCP, I think we can continue to use the Google App Engine framework, but we should start getting in place some basic hygiene to allow us to switch to a containerized deployment model (including Google Container Engine or Amazon's Container Service.)

1. We switch from webapp2 to flask as the framework. This will give us some optionality in the future for shifting off of GAE, while allowing us to remain compatible with GAE in the short term.
2. If we find that particular dependencies aren't available with GAE, we could switch to the GAE flexible model as an interim step.
3. We explicitly dockerize the application now. This will give us some flexibility to experiment with non-GAE deployment models in the future and it's good hygiene in general.

If this is agreeable (vote of +3 will carry the day?)

Then there are two tasks that we should probably do in the interim:

1. Remove references to webapp2 and replace with flask.
2. Create a dockerfile.

Thoughts?

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Ping on this -- anyone have any strong opinions ? @danhammer @stroupaloop .

Also, I've been doing some work with GraphQL lately, and have found it to be a nice enhancement upon REST. Any thoughts on using GraphQL as a protocol.

from coastal-valuation.

Strange. I missed the notification for this issue update. Sorry for the delay.

Your suggestions are spot on. I like the two immediate tasks. I will finalize the outstanding PR and then begin on the tasks.

Another comment on GraphQL forthcoming.

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I've never heard of GraphQL. This seems well-worth learning. Great find. At some point, soon, we should work for a couple of hours together, in the same place to get up to speed together.

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There will be details that need to be settled, but I think for the purpose of this rather broad issue, we can close it now -- given pull request #17. We will likely need to settle on where to deploy (Google App Engine, Heroku, AWS) but that will be a separate issue, later.

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