Including external libraries also based on Pydantic, as <abbr title="Object-Relational Mapper">ORM</abbr>s, <abbr title="Object-Document Mapper">ODM</abbr>s for databases.

* There can be **multiple processes** of the **same program** running at the same time.

If you check out the "task manager" or "system monitor" (or similar tools) in your operating system, you will be able to see many of those processes running.

	dataScannerCompactAtChildren     = 10000                            // Compact when there are this many children in a branch.
	dataScannerCompactAtFolders      = dataScannerCompactAtChildren / 4 // Compact when this many subfolders in a single folder.
	dataScannerForceCompactAtFolders = 1_000_000                        // Compact when this many subfolders in a single folder (even top level).

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# Settings and Environment Variables

In many cases your application could need some external settings or configurations, for example secret keys, database credentials, credentials for email services, etc.

Most of these settings are variable (can change), like database URLs. And many could be sensitive, like secrets.

For this reason it's common to provide them in environment variables that are read by the application.

## Environment Variables

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