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 # FRMS
 ForeLight Reactor Management System
 
-Time to get to business
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-## Main design principles
- - Flexible
- - Reliable
- - Scalable
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-Those principles guide our design choices
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-### Flexible
-    - System should support any reactor config
-    - should be able to change sub packages in isolation
-        - portability of packages i.e. can swap databases or sub in testing packages for memory based storage
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-### Reliable
-    - should support any # of reactors failing (including network related failures)
-    - should provide log and database correctness via atomic commits
-    - automatic log recovery and reactor functioning despite sub-system or network failures
-    - 100% uptime and seamless updates **goal**
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-### Scalable
-    - Add and use sensor packages at will
-    - Group reactors logically regardless of physical location
-    - Scale infrastructure to efficiently support any # of reactors
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-### TODO
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-- [ ] Convert reactor architecture to Rust
-    - [ ] build I2C rust interface
-    - [ ] connect to base gRPC via rust
-    - [ ] automate builds
-    - [ ] fix docker automation
-- [ ] Add a test suite for both go and rust implementations
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