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# December 2020
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## Northstar
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As the development on [Northstar](@/Northstar/_index.md) nears the completion phase,
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updates on it have slowed down, and the only updates that were made during this
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stage mostly comprises of configuration updates.
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These updates were mostly related to bootstrapping [DynaConf](https://www.dynaconf.com/),
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as we embraced 12-factor app configuration recommendations, allowing for better
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configuration management.
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## Interface
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Realising the need for validation of a request to an actor, an authentication
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mechanism was developed to implement Matrix's [signed JSON](https://github.com/matrix-org/python-signedjson)
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feature, but, was later replaced in favor of [HTTP Signatures](https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-cavage-http-signatures).
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Interface underwent major refactoring to improve test-ability and reliability in addition
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to implementing authentication by a [signed JSON](https://github.com/matrix-org/python-signedjson)
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mechanism implemented by the Matrix project. Taking note of rate-limits imposed by some forges,
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we figured we'd have to cache responses and so data persistence was implemented by way of
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storing in a database.
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## References
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These are a list of the Pull Requests where the following updates took place for the
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organization.
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- Forking Implementation :: [#34](https://github.com/forgeflux-org/interface/commit/5c9f61d60ce069963da7abc761b9ba3d81c8883a)
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- Authentication :: [#36](https://github.com/forgeflux-org/interface/commit/5cc206cbe5be83cedac14949a537baad4c6351e3)
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- DB Refactor :: [#39](https://github.com/forgeflux-org/interface/commit/57c9a085b38f8c3bab7975e18d21e4455ad3cac9), [#40](https://github.com/forgeflux-org/interface/commit/d9d785ca116e9a2bb9a40cf3eaa16a8b275d1593)
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