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+# 8. Future improvements
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+Once the basic setup is working, consider implementing the following:
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+- **MySQL:** Replace SQLite with MySQL for persistent production database storage.
+- **Authentication:** Protect endpoints using API keys or token-based authentication. The [backend-api](https://git.gansejunge.com/notifier/backend-api/src/branch/main/src/main.py) has an example
+- **Logging:** Replace `print()` statements with Python's `logging` module.
+- **Error handling:** Handle database connection failures and invalid requests.
+- **Configuration:** Move database paths, ports and other settings into environment variables.
+- **Deployment** - Use Docker with docker-compose to run self hosted images from