Service Overview

The production-style runtime is defined in docker-compose.yml.

Core Services

• dr-app: main Next.js application and system of record.
• dr-video: WebRTC/media room service.
• transcription-hub: transcript ingestion and finalization.
• transcription-db: PostgreSQL database for transcription hub.
• dr-event-hub: structured operational event store.
• dr-matching: participant grouping and matching service.
• dr-thinker: analysis-oriented AI service.
• dr-remote-worker: remote post-call worker lifecycle.
• audio-deepgram: Deepgram post-call transcription service.
• audio-vosk: Vosk post-call transcription service.
• dr-proxy: Nginx reverse proxy.
• dr-docs: static documentation site.

Routing

The proxy routes:

• / to dr-app;
• /video/ to dr-video;
• /remote-worker-app/ to dr-remote-worker;
• /matching-admin/ to dr-matching;
• /thinking-admin/ to dr-thinker;
• ActivityPub paths to dr-app;
• docs.democracyroutes.com to dr-docs.

Data Ownership

• dr-app owns users, community spaces, meetings, templates, flows, public updates, and most authorization.
• dr-video owns live room state and media behavior.
• transcription-hub owns transcript ingestion/finalization state.
• dr-event-hub owns operational events.