replace flask dev web server

[cgallegu]

It's not recommended to use Flask's dev web server in production.

Replace it with a proper one.

[cgallegu]

Let's decide which one before rolling it out.

[jurelmetal]

Depends on the infra solution. Right now with a plain VM we can choose whatever we like, but in managed infra we may have restrictions on this. May have to look into running the app as a lambda function instead of a web server.

[cgallegu]

One thing to consider when evaluating going serverless is how that'll work with the sqlite db. Will the function pull the whole thing on each coldstart? It's big (> 1GB), so that might take a while, or might increase costs. I haven't tried it or investigated it. I like lambda because the cost scales with the number of players which is cool when there's only a few. I'm also happy _not_ operating a host if I can do that, as long as it's not way more expensive than the current setup.

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[cgallegu]

If using a host, gunicorn + flask as per the docs: https://docs.gunicorn.org/en/latest/custom.html

[cgallegu]

The API is built on Flask. Flask uses Werkzeug. So let's start from the docs.

[cgallegu]

Flask also has Deployment Options in the docs.