Protect against DoS attacks

Feature description

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We want our API to use a cache for temporarily storing all GitHub server data. This is because if we make too many requests, GitHub may limit requests, rendering our application useless. This would open our app up to DoS (Denial of Service) attacks, and we want to prevent this.

EDIT: We are now moving our data to be stored on the server directly. This means caching will not be necessary.

✅ Tasks to be Completed

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See the attached sub-issues.

Acceptance Criteria

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• All fetching of data is routed through the internal server.
• All data being fetched by the server is served from files local to the server.

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Review the attached sub-issues and trace how the application currently fetches GitHub data through its API. Route every fetch through the internal server and verify that the server serves the data from local files, using the acceptance criteria as the completion check.