Scaffolding the Monorepo and Local Runtime

Devlog - 2026-04-24

Overview

Prompted the initial scaffold for the core platform monorepo. The goal was to create a repo shape that could support local development, containerized services, observability, security checks, and future infrastructure work without having to reorganize the entire project later.

Initial Repository Structure

The generated structure:

game-backend-devops-platform/
  gateway/
    nginx.conf
  services/
    matchmaking/
    session/
    telemetry/
    worker/
  simulator/
  infra/
    compose/
    terraform/ # optional in week 4
  observability/
    prometheus/
    grafana/
    jaeger/
  security/
    trivy/
    syft/
    cosign/ # optional
  scripts/
  docs/
    architecture/
    runbooks/
    incidents/
  .github/workflows/
  README.md

Local Runtime Direction

Once the scaffold was created, the first local runtime target was to stand up:

• PostgreSQL as the durable database
• Redis as the in-memory backend queue
• NGINX as the gateway for API endpoints
• A matchmaking API for connectivity
• A worker service to process background information

Everything is intended to run through Docker so the project can be started, stopped, inspected, and rebuilt consistently.