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+# ADR-0008: Layered Architecture with FastAPI Dependency Injection
+
+Date: 2026-04-02
+
+## Status
+
+Accepted
+
+## Context
+
+Python and FastAPI impose no project structure. The common alternatives
+for a single-domain REST API are:
+
+- **Flat structure**: all application code in one or a few modules at the
+  root. Simplest to start, but HTTP handling, business logic, ORM queries,
+  and Pydantic models quickly intermingle, making the code hard to test
+  or reason about in isolation.
+- **Repository pattern**: a dedicated repository layer between the service
+  and the ORM. Common in Java/Spring Boot; adds a class hierarchy and
+  interface contracts that duplicate what SQLAlchemy already provides for
+  a CRUD project.
+- **Hexagonal / clean architecture**: ports and adapters with abstract
+  interfaces for every external dependency. Maximum decoupling, but
+  significant boilerplate for a single-domain PoC.
+- **Layered architecture with FastAPI's native DI**: three functional
+  layers (routes, services, database) with FastAPI's `Depends()` mechanism
+  for async session injection. No custom DI container; the framework
+  handles construction and lifecycle of session objects.
+
+An additional constraint: SQLAlchemy ORM models (the database schema) and
+Pydantic models (the API contract) serve different purposes and must be
+kept separate to avoid coupling the wire format to the storage schema.
+
+## Decision
+
+We will use a three-layer architecture where each layer has a single,
+explicit responsibility, and async SQLAlchemy sessions are injected via
+FastAPI's `Depends()` mechanism.
+
+```text
+routes/ → services/ → schemas/ (SQLAlchemy) → SQLite via aiosqlite
+```
+
+- **`routes/`** (HTTP layer): FastAPI `APIRouter` definitions. Each route
+  function handles HTTP concerns only — parameter extraction, status codes,
+  and dispatching to a service function. Routes receive an `AsyncSession`
+  via `Annotated[AsyncSession, Depends(generate_async_session)]`; session
+  management (commit, rollback, close) is handled inside the service or
+  via the session context manager.
+- **`services/`** (business layer): module-level async functions, not
+  classes. Each function accepts an `AsyncSession` as its first parameter
+  and owns all business logic — existence checks, conflict detection,
+  cache management, and ORM interactions. Services have no knowledge of
+  HTTP types.
+- **`schemas/`** (data layer): SQLAlchemy 2.0 `DeclarativeBase` models
+  that define the database schema. These are never serialised directly
+  to API responses.
+- **`models/`**: Pydantic models (`PlayerRequestModel`,
+  `PlayerResponseModel`) for request validation and response serialisation.
+  Kept strictly separate from the ORM schema to avoid coupling the API
+  contract to storage column names or types.
+- **`databases/`**: async session factory (`generate_async_session`) used
+  as the `Depends()` target. The engine and session configuration live here
+  and nowhere else.
+
+Services are implemented as plain functions (not classes with injected
+interfaces) because FastAPI's `Depends()` already provides lifecycle
+management for the session, and functional composition is idiomatic in
+Python for stateless service logic.
+
+## Consequences
+
+**Positive:**
+- Each layer has a single, testable responsibility. Route tests via
+  `TestClient` exercise the full stack; session injection is transparent.
+- FastAPI handles session construction, teardown, and error propagation
+  through `Depends()` — no composition root or manual wiring is required.
+- The ORM/Pydantic split prevents accidental leakage of column names or
+  ORM-specific types into the API contract.
+- The functional service style is idiomatic Python: functions are easy to
+  call directly in tests without instantiating a class.
+
+**Negative:**
+- Service functions cannot be replaced with test doubles via interface
+  injection — there are no interface contracts. Testing error branches
+  requires either fault injection at the database level or patching with
+  `unittest.mock`.
+- The `AsyncSession` parameter must be threaded through every service
+  function call; adding a new database operation always requires touching
+  the route signature and the service signature together.
+- Contributors familiar with class-based service layers (Spring Boot,
+  ASP.NET Core, Gin) may expect a similar structure; the functional
+  approach deviates from the pattern used in the other repos in this
+  comparison.
diff --git a/docs/adr/0009-docker-and-compose-strategy.md b/docs/adr/0009-docker-and-compose-strategy.md
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+# ADR-0009: Docker and Compose Strategy
+
+Date: 2026-04-02
+
+## Status
+
+Accepted
+
+## Context
+
+The project needs to run in a self-contained environment for demos, CI,
+and as a reference point in the cross-language comparison. Two concerns
+apply:
+
+1. **Image size and security**: a naive build installs all dependencies
+   including C build tools (required for native extensions such as
+   `greenlet` and `aiosqlite`) into the final image, increasing its
+   size and attack surface.
+2. **Local orchestration**: contributors should be able to start the
+   application with a single command, without installing Python or `uv`,
+   configuring environment variables, or managing a database file manually.
+
+Dependency resolution strategies considered:
+
+- **Single-stage build with pip**: simplest, but requires `build-essential`,
+  `gcc`, `libffi-dev`, and `libssl-dev` in the final image to compile
+  native extensions at install time.
+- **Multi-stage with virtualenv**: builder creates a `.venv`; runtime
+  copies it. Works for pure-Python projects but is fragile when native
+  extensions reference absolute paths baked in during compilation.
+- **Multi-stage with pre-built wheels**: builder resolves dependencies via
+  `uv export` and pre-compiles them into `.whl` files (`pip wheel`);
+  runtime installs from the local wheelhouse with `--no-index`. Build
+  tools stay in the builder stage; the final image needs only `pip install`.
+
+## Decision
+
+We will use a multi-stage Docker build where the builder stage pre-compiles
+all dependency wheels, and Docker Compose to orchestrate the application
+locally.
+
+- **Builder stage** (`python:3.13.3-slim-bookworm`): installs
+  `build-essential`, `gcc`, `libffi-dev`, and `libssl-dev`; uses
+  `uv export --frozen --no-dev --no-hashes` to produce a pinned,
+  reproducible dependency list from `uv.lock`, then compiles every
+  package into a `.whl` file via `pip wheel`. The wheelhouse is written
+  to `/app/wheelhouse/`.
+- **Runtime stage** (`python:3.13.3-slim-bookworm`): installs `curl` only
+  (for the health check); copies the pre-built wheels from the builder;
+  installs them with `--no-index --find-links` (no network access, no
+  build tools required); removes the wheelhouse after installation.
+- **Entrypoint script**: on first start, copies the pre-seeded database
+  from the image's read-only `hold/` directory to the writable named
+  volume at `/storage/`, then runs both seed scripts to ensure the schema
+  and data are up to date. On subsequent starts, the volume file is
+  preserved and seed scripts run again (they are idempotent).
+- **Compose (`compose.yaml`)**: defines a single service with port
+  mapping (`9000`), a named volume (`storage`), and environment variables
+  (`STORAGE_PATH`, `PYTHONUNBUFFERED=1`). Health checks are declared in
+  the Dockerfile (`GET /health`); Compose relies on that declaration.
+- A non-root `fastapi` user is created in the runtime stage following the
+  principle of least privilege.
+
+## Consequences
+
+**Positive:**
+- Build tools (`gcc`, `libffi-dev`) are confined to the builder stage and
+  never reach the runtime image — smaller attack surface and faster pulls.
+- Offline installation (`--no-index`) eliminates network-related
+  non-determinism during the runtime image build.
+- `uv.lock` pins every transitive dependency; the builder produces the
+  same wheels regardless of upstream index state.
+- `docker compose up` is a complete local setup with no prerequisites
+  beyond Docker.
+- The named volume preserves data across restarts; `docker compose down -v`
+  resets it cleanly.
+
+**Negative:**
+- Multi-stage builds are more complex to read and maintain than
+  single-stage builds.
+- The wheelhouse is an intermediate artifact: if a wheel cannot be
+  pre-built (e.g. binary-only distributions without a source distribution),
+  the builder stage will fail.
+- The seed scripts run on every container start. They are idempotent but
+  add latency to startup and must remain so as the project evolves.
+- The SQLite database file is versioned and bundled, meaning schema changes
+  require a Docker image rebuild.
+
+**When to revisit:**
+
+- If a dependency ships only as a binary wheel for the target platform,
+  the `pip wheel` step may need to be replaced with a direct `pip install`
+  in the builder stage.
+- If a second service (e.g. PostgreSQL) is added, Compose will need a
+  dedicated network and dependency ordering.
diff --git a/docs/adr/README.md b/docs/adr/README.md
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 | [0005](0005-full-replace-put-no-patch.md) | Full Replace PUT, No PATCH | Accepted | 2026-03-21 |
 | [0006](0006-in-memory-caching-with-aiocache.md) | In-Memory Caching with aiocache | Accepted | 2026-03-21 |
 | [0007](0007-integration-only-test-strategy.md) | Integration-Only Test Strategy | Accepted | 2026-03-21 |
+| [0008](0008-layered-architecture.md) | Layered Architecture with FastAPI Dependency Injection | Accepted | 2026-04-02 |
+| [0009](0009-docker-and-compose-strategy.md) | Docker and Compose Strategy | Accepted | 2026-04-02 |