Catching up to Pierre's old branch

[PawelPlesniak]

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Fixes # (issue_number)

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Type of change

• Documentation (non-breaking change that adds or improves the documentation)
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• All tests pass (eg. python -m pytest)
• Pre-commit hooks run successfully (eg. pre-commit run --all-files)

Further checks

• Code is commented, particularly in hard-to-understand areas
• Tests added or an issue has been opened to tackle that in the future.
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[PawelPlesniak]

At the moment, the processes grafeully exit (aside from gunicorn as usual). This needs some tweaks but is coming together nicely