create entity classes for users, collections, and repositories with JPA/Lombok annotations.

Logging of API "events" using Kafka/RabbitMQ

Set up structure for Integration Testing between multiple components.

accept and verify github api access tokens, inject user into spring security context, get UserID to use in queries.

Create working API without Authentication for jkerak user, allowing hardcoding where needed.

• ignore a repository (by id or name) to user collection
• assume jkerak user for now to get skeleton API calls working without authentication/oauth2
• retrieve a list of ignored repositories

Create template and write unit tests for all existing code.

Generic application/debug logging (Log4J)

Validate incoming data using regex/JSR303 annotations in model classes.

Define error model to utilize for http responses, create exception handling tree.

Introduce limit to frequency of API requests.