fix: re-revert the API decoupling (#41263)

* fix(api): decouple api from curriculum

This reverts commit 8f0e441644 and
introduces the implementations from #40703.

* fix(gitpod): add curriculum build to GitPod

This reverts commit 706d70f58d and
introduces implementations from #41234.

* docs: update DevOps manual for api change (#41259)

Co-authored-by: Oliver Eyton-Williams <ojeytonwilliams@gmail.com>

api-server/src/production-start.js

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+// this ensures node understands the future
+const _ = require('lodash');
+const createDebugger = require('debug');
+
+const log = createDebugger('fcc:server:production-start');
+const startTime = Date.now();
+// force logger to always output
+// this may be brittle
+log.enabled = true;
+// this is where server starts booting up
+const app = require('./server');
+
+let timeoutHandler;
+let killTime = 15;
+
+const onConnect = _.once(() => {
+  log('db connected in: %s', Date.now() - startTime);
+  if (timeoutHandler) {
+    clearTimeout(timeoutHandler);
+  }
+  app.start();
+});
+
+timeoutHandler = setTimeout(() => {
+  const message = `db did not connect after ${killTime}s -- crashing hard`;
+  // purposely shutdown server
+  // pm2 should restart this in production
+  throw new Error(message);
+}, killTime * 1000);
+
+app.dataSources.db.on('connected', onConnect);