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title: '04.02 — Technology Choices'
description: 'Detailed explanation of technology choices in CalMiner.'
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# 04.02 — Technology Choices

- **FastAPI**: Chosen for its high performance, ease of use, and modern features like async support and automatic OpenAPI documentation.
- **PostgreSQL**: Selected for its robustness, scalability, and support for complex queries, making it suitable for handling the diverse data needs of mining project management.
- **SQLAlchemy**: Provides a flexible and powerful ORM layer, facilitating database interactions while maintaining code readability and maintainability.
- **Chart.js**: Utilized for its simplicity and effectiveness in rendering interactive charts, enhancing the user experience on the dashboard.
- **Jinja2**: Enables server-side rendering of HTML templates, allowing for dynamic content generation while keeping the frontend lightweight.
- **Pydantic**: Used for data validation and serialization, ensuring that incoming request payloads conform to expected schemas.
- **Docker**: Employed for containerization, ensuring consistent deployment across different environments and simplifying dependency management.
- **Redis**: Used as an in-memory data store to cache frequently accessed data, improving application performance and reducing database load.