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 Built in Rust and containerized with Docker. 
 
 ## CONTRIBUTING
-This is mostly a labor of love and learning that we might actually use. There are certainly existing solutions to this problem in the wild already. I'm building this in Rust🦀 to get better at my skills in that language and what I percieve as some of its strengths. I hope to learn more about performance optimization, telemetry/observability, and security. I'm happy to have friends on this journey who are in the mood to hack on it with me, just send me a message / make a draft PR if you have questions. I'm not going to write a lengthy contributing doc for this(yet)😅.
+This is mostly a labor of love and learning that we might actually use. There are certainly existing solutions to this problem in the wild already. 
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+I'm building this in Rust🦀 to get better at my skills in that language and what I percieve as some of its strengths. I hope to learn more about performance optimization, telemetry/observability, and security. 
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+I'm happy to have friends on this journey who are in the mood to hack on it with me, just send me a message / make a draft PR if you have questions. I'm not going to write a lengthy contributing doc for this(yet)😅.
 
 ## ROADMAP
 ### MVP 0.x
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 - [ ] Containerize for development
 - [ ] Build Config mechanism
 - [ ] Build Simple Routing mechanism (JWT auth from front end, all just passed username / basic user metadata from Clerk.io, contents TBD)
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 *as time allows, build the Clerk interface to back pair of auth and metadata services so that the auth/metadata service is configurable*
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 - [ ] Containerize for deployment
 - [ ] Test
 - [ ] Deploy
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 ### Future Development
 #### High Priority
 - [ ] Add reverse proxy
+- [ ] Add observability mechanisms (OpenTelemtry/tracing.rs ?)
 - [ ] Add auth bypass option for public APIs to config (Auth on by default)
 - [ ] Add read/write options to user metadata per service (nested under service name)