diff --git a/.editorconfig b/.editorconfig
index 32b9c28..1e81c1b 100644
--- a/.editorconfig
+++ b/.editorconfig
@@ -15,6 +15,9 @@ ij_formatter_tags_enabled = true
 ij_smart_tabs = false
 ij_wrap_on_typing = false
 
+[*.{yml,yaml}]
+indent_size = 2
+
 [*.java]
 ij_continuation_indent_size = 4
 ij_visual_guides = 80, 120
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index d0f9c98..4793023 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -7,70 +7,86 @@ downloads website.
 
 ## Requirements
 
-- Java 16
+- Java 21 (GraalVM optional to build native images)
 - Docker
-- sbt 1.15
 - terraform (if you want to deploy to a kubernetes cluster)
 
 ## Technologies in use
+### Micronaut 4.1.3
 
-### Framework
+- [User Guide](https://docs.micronaut.io/4.1.3/guide/index.html)
+- [API Reference](https://docs.micronaut.io/4.1.3/api/index.html)
+- [Configuration Reference](https://docs.micronaut.io/4.1.3/guide/configurationreference.html)
+- [Micronaut Guides](https://guides.micronaut.io/index.html)
+---
 
-SystemOfADownload (SOAD) is built on [LagomFramework], an opinionated
-[Event Source] + [CQRS] architecture framework built on [Akka], and as such relies
-on several functional programing paradigms. Lagom as a whole provides enough
-to build out several services with semi-automatic service discovery routing
-and using [Postgres] as the primary storage database for the Event Journal and
-Query side persistence.
+- [Shadow Gradle Plugin](https://plugins.gradle.org/plugin/com.github.johnrengelman.shadow)
+- [Micronaut Gradle Plugin documentation](https://micronaut-projects.github.io/micronaut-gradle-plugin/latest/)
+- [GraalVM Gradle Plugin documentation](https://graalvm.github.io/native-build-tools/latest/gradle-plugin.html)
+#### Feature test-resources documentation
 
-To learn about the topics, please visit
-[Lagom's documentation on concepts](https://www.lagomframework.com/documentation/1.6.x/java/CoreConcepts.html)
-that goes at length about how the system works together.
+- [Micronaut Test Resources documentation](https://micronaut-projects.github.io/micronaut-test-resources/latest/guide/)
 
-### Containerization Out of the Box
 
-SOAD is targeted at being deployed with either sbt in-development or deployed on a
-Kubernetes cluster.
+#### Feature r2dbc documentation
 
-### Services
-Each service is loosely intended on the desired workload/grouped boundaries of knowledge.
+- [Micronaut R2DBC documentation](https://micronaut-projects.github.io/micronaut-r2dbc/latest/guide/)
 
-In a sense, the data
-The first three are what effectively being given as model views to exploring a paired
-[Sonatype Nexus] repository instance for artifacts and presenting/serving them in a
-more user friendlier way by providing git-like changelogs between artifacts. 
+- [https://r2dbc.io](https://r2dbc.io)
 
-#### ArtifactService
 
-The bread and butter of the shebang. Manages/creates/caches artifacts to knowledge by
-[maven coordindates](https://maven.apache.org/pom.html#Maven_Coordinates). Typically,
-an `Artifact` is not actually an artifact, but considered a `Component` with several
-`Asset`s. Here we have exposed the ability to retrieve an artifact (if registered) and
-its known assets along with download url's provided.
+#### Feature github-workflow-graal-docker-registry documentation
 
-#### CommitService
+- [https://docs.github.com/en/free-pro-team@latest/actions](https://docs.github.com/en/free-pro-team@latest/actions)
 
-This is a little more subtle, but effectively, since each artifact may or may not have a
-`Git-Commit` listed in the jar manifest, this service strictly deals with managing registered
-repositories, updating them, and pulling the list of commits diffing between two commits.
 
-#### ChangelogService
+#### Feature security-ldap documentation
 
-Amalgamation of information between the `ArtifactService` and `CommitService`. This is where
-we can store/manage changelogs per artifact regsitered by an entity.
+- [Micronaut Security LDAP documentation](https://micronaut-projects.github.io/micronaut-security/latest/guide/index.html#ldap)
 
-#### SonatypeWebhookService
 
-This is the webhook functionality that performs a [Saga]-like series of jobs or units of
-work. Because the nature of an artifact being uploaded to Sonatype and "the fact that anything
-can and will go wrong", 
+#### Feature discovery-kubernetes documentation
+
+- [Micronaut Kubernetes Service Discovery documentation](https://micronaut-projects.github.io/micronaut-kubernetes/latest/guide/#service-discovery)
+
+
+#### Feature micronaut-aot documentation
+
+- [Micronaut AOT documentation](https://micronaut-projects.github.io/micronaut-aot/latest/guide/)
+
+
+#### Feature liquibase documentation
+
+- [Micronaut Liquibase Database Migration documentation](https://micronaut-projects.github.io/micronaut-liquibase/latest/guide/index.html)
+
+- [https://www.liquibase.org/](https://www.liquibase.org/)
+
+
+#### Feature cache-caffeine documentation
+
+- [Micronaut Caffeine Cache documentation](https://micronaut-projects.github.io/micronaut-cache/latest/guide/index.html)
+
+- [https://github.com/ben-manes/caffeine](https://github.com/ben-manes/caffeine)
+
+
+#### Feature serialization-jackson documentation
+
+- [Micronaut Serialization Jackson Core documentation](https://micronaut-projects.github.io/micronaut-serialization/latest/guide/)
+
+
+#### Feature data-r2dbc documentation
+
+- [Micronaut Data R2DBC documentation](https://micronaut-projects.github.io/micronaut-data/latest/guide/#dbc)
+
+- [https://r2dbc.io](https://r2dbc.io)
+
+
+#### Feature jdbc-hikari documentation
+
+- [Micronaut Hikari JDBC Connection Pool documentation](https://micronaut-projects.github.io/micronaut-sql/latest/guide/index.html#jdbc)
+
 
-### AuthService
 
-Provides the login end point and generates Json Web Tokens (JWTs) to enable interacting
-with select services. It uses lagom-pac4j's [`SecuredService`] to provide authentication
-and authorization to other endpoints. It is used to provide internal, LDAP and JWT based
-authentication.
 
 [LagomFramework]:https://lagomframework.com/
 [Event Source]:https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/patterns/event-sourcing
diff --git a/artifacts/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar b/artifacts/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar
deleted file mode 100644
index 249e583..0000000
Binary files a/artifacts/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar and /dev/null differ
diff --git a/artifacts/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties b/artifacts/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
deleted file mode 100644
index fae0804..0000000
--- a/artifacts/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
-distributionPath=wrapper/dists
-distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-8.1.1-bin.zip
-zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
-zipStorePath=wrapper/dists
diff --git a/build.gradle.kts b/build.gradle.kts
index aaf4fe2..f89287c 100644
--- a/build.gradle.kts
+++ b/build.gradle.kts
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ plugins {
     id("io.micronaut.library") version "4.0.2" apply false
     id("io.micronaut.application") version "4.0.2" apply false
     id("io.micronaut.docker") version "4.0.2" apply false
+    id("io.micronaut.aot") version "4.0.2" apply false
     id("io.micronaut.test-resources") version "4.0.2" apply false
 }
 
@@ -36,15 +37,21 @@ tasks {
     }
 }
 
+
+tasks.wrapper {
+    distributionType = Wrapper.DistributionType.ALL
+}
+
+
 allprojects {
     apply(plugin = "java-library")
 
     java {
-        sourceCompatibility = JavaVersion.VERSION_20
-        targetCompatibility = JavaVersion.VERSION_20
-        if (JavaVersion.current() < JavaVersion.VERSION_20) {
+        sourceCompatibility = JavaVersion.VERSION_21
+        targetCompatibility = JavaVersion.VERSION_21
+        if (JavaVersion.current() < JavaVersion.VERSION_21) {
             toolchain {
-                languageVersion.set(JavaLanguageVersion.of(20))
+                languageVersion.set(JavaLanguageVersion.of(21))
             }
         }
     }
diff --git a/gradle/libs.versions.toml b/gradle/libs.versions.toml
index fa7c304..19cedf4 100644
--- a/gradle/libs.versions.toml
+++ b/gradle/libs.versions.toml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 [versions]
-micronaut = "4.0.5"
+micronaut = "4.1.3"
 scala = "2.13"
 akka = "2.8.5"
 jackson = "2.15.3"
diff --git a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar
index c1962a7..7f93135 100644
Binary files a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar and b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar differ
diff --git a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
index 37aef8d..8838ba9 100644
--- a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
+++ b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 distributionPath=wrapper/dists
-distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-8.1.1-bin.zip
+distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-8.4-all.zip
 networkTimeout=10000
+validateDistributionUrl=true
 zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 zipStorePath=wrapper/dists
diff --git a/gradlew b/gradlew
index aeb74cb..1aa94a4 100755
--- a/gradlew
+++ b/gradlew
@@ -83,7 +83,8 @@ done
 # This is normally unused
 # shellcheck disable=SC2034
 APP_BASE_NAME=${0##*/}
-APP_HOME=$( cd "${APP_HOME:-./}" && pwd -P ) || exit
+# Discard cd standard output in case $CDPATH is set (https://github.com/gradle/gradle/issues/25036)
+APP_HOME=$( cd "${APP_HOME:-./}" > /dev/null && pwd -P ) || exit
 
 # Use the maximum available, or set MAX_FD != -1 to use that value.
 MAX_FD=maximum
@@ -130,10 +131,13 @@ location of your Java installation."
     fi
 else
     JAVACMD=java
-    which java >/dev/null 2>&1 || die "ERROR: JAVA_HOME is not set and no 'java' command could be found in your PATH.
+    if ! command -v java >/dev/null 2>&1
+    then
+        die "ERROR: JAVA_HOME is not set and no 'java' command could be found in your PATH.
 
 Please set the JAVA_HOME variable in your environment to match the
 location of your Java installation."
+    fi
 fi
 
 # Increase the maximum file descriptors if we can.
@@ -141,7 +145,7 @@ if ! "$cygwin" && ! "$darwin" && ! "$nonstop" ; then
     case $MAX_FD in #(
       max*)
         # In POSIX sh, ulimit -H is undefined. That's why the result is checked to see if it worked.
-        # shellcheck disable=SC3045
+        # shellcheck disable=SC2039,SC3045
         MAX_FD=$( ulimit -H -n ) ||
             warn "Could not query maximum file descriptor limit"
     esac
@@ -149,7 +153,7 @@ if ! "$cygwin" && ! "$darwin" && ! "$nonstop" ; then
       '' | soft) :;; #(
       *)
         # In POSIX sh, ulimit -n is undefined. That's why the result is checked to see if it worked.
-        # shellcheck disable=SC3045
+        # shellcheck disable=SC2039,SC3045
         ulimit -n "$MAX_FD" ||
             warn "Could not set maximum file descriptor limit to $MAX_FD"
     esac
@@ -198,11 +202,11 @@ fi
 # Add default JVM options here. You can also use JAVA_OPTS and GRADLE_OPTS to pass JVM options to this script.
 DEFAULT_JVM_OPTS='"-Xmx64m" "-Xms64m"'
 
-# Collect all arguments for the java command;
-#   * $DEFAULT_JVM_OPTS, $JAVA_OPTS, and $GRADLE_OPTS can contain fragments of
-#     shell script including quotes and variable substitutions, so put them in
-#     double quotes to make sure that they get re-expanded; and
-#   * put everything else in single quotes, so that it's not re-expanded.
+# Collect all arguments for the java command:
+#   * DEFAULT_JVM_OPTS, JAVA_OPTS, JAVA_OPTS, and optsEnvironmentVar are not allowed to contain shell fragments,
+#     and any embedded shellness will be escaped.
+#   * For example: A user cannot expect ${Hostname} to be expanded, as it is an environment variable and will be
+#     treated as '${Hostname}' itself on the command line.
 
 set -- \
         "-Dorg.gradle.appname=$APP_BASE_NAME" \