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# ADR 0001: Monolith over microservices
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- Status: accepted
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- Date: 2026-09
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## Context
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The messenger serves a single family (tens of users) on a home-lab mini PC
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with ~8 GB RAM. A microservice split would add operational overhead
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(networking, service discovery, per-service containers) with zero benefit at
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this scale.
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## Decision
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Build a single Go process exposing REST, WebSocket, media serving and static
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files, with PostgreSQL as the only external state. Internal packages
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(`store`, `auth`, `realtime`, `api`, `media`) are cleanly separated with
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explicit interfaces, so extraction later is mechanical.
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## Consequences
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- One container, trivial `docker compose up`.
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- In-process WebSocket hub gives O(1) presence checks for push decisions.
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- If the service ever needs horizontal scaling, `realtime` and `store`
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already hide their implementations behind interfaces. |