⚒️ forge

A space for experimenting with emerging standards, architectures, and engineering concepts.

Here, ideas are tested through working software: assumptions are challenged, tradeoffs are made explicit, and learning matters more than convention.

Experiments

Use the concept guidelines to place experiments by engineering question. New experiments should also follow the experiment README guideline so their intent, execution, and verification remain useful to both humans and agents.

Experiment	Purpose
Application boundaries / Express Generator	Record the conventional routers, views, middleware, and error boundaries generated for Express.
Application boundaries / Express Hello World	Demonstrate the minimum Express route and server lifecycle.
Application boundaries / Markdown notes with SQLite	Persist notes behind a repository boundary with a framework-free client.
Application boundaries / TODO service with Express and Sequelize	Separate routing, controllers, and PostgreSQL persistence in a small task service.
Batch processing / generic jobs with GoBatch	Preserve a parked reader-processor-writer and partitioning proof of concept.
Batch processing / Spring Batch log aggregation	Import CSV log records through a chunk-oriented batch job.
Desktop UI architecture / Qt Quick + PySide6	Compare a QML view with a minimal Python bootstrap.
Desktop UI architecture / Qt Widgets + PySide6	Demonstrate widget composition and signal-slot interaction.
Desktop UI architecture / Terminal UI with Textual	Explore a responsive stateful terminal UI with separated services, adapters, and rendering.
External service integration / cached weather + net/http	Wrap a weather API with Redis caching and per-IP rate limiting.
External service integration / TMDB + Cobra	Explore a typed API client behind a Cobra command interface.
HTTP semantics and contracts / DNF history with FastAPI	Parse local DNF transaction history through an asynchronous HTTP endpoint.
HTTP semantics and contracts / HTTP QUERY / Node.js + Fastify	Explore body-bearing HTTP QUERY requests with Fastify.
HTTP semantics and contracts / Request validation with FastAPI	Demonstrate typed path, query, and body validation with FastAPI and Pydantic.
HTTP semantics and contracts / Routing CRUD with Chi	Explore resource-oriented routing while proxying CRUD requests.
Numeric precision / money with decimal libraries	Compare floating-point pitfalls with rational and decimal representations.
Storage architecture / database sharding / order service with Spring and ShardingSphere	Route orders across two MySQL databases by order ID parity.
Storage architecture / in-memory key-value store	Expose a concurrent map through HTTP with Prometheus instrumentation.