Félix Malfait 41c10b9ee7 feat(server): resolve app-owned metadata translations at runtime (#22235)
## Summary

First of a **4-PR stack** that lets apps built with `twenty-sdk`
translate their metadata, resolved at runtime. The standard Twenty app
is modelled as "an app like any other" — `NULL
applicationRegistrationId` ⟺ the standard app, no special-casing.

This PR adds the server foundation and wires runtime resolution for
**object** and **field** metadata:

- New `applicationTranslation` core table + entity (nullable
`applicationRegistrationId`, `locale`, `messages` jsonb), one row per
(app, locale) to avoid multi-MB rows.
- `ApplicationTranslationCacheService` (process-local, 30s TTL) +
`ApplicationTranslationSyncService` (upsert + soft-delete from a
manifest).
- Shared `translateStandardLabel` util: application catalog → i18n
bundle → source value.
- Object/field resolvers + dataloaders prefetch and apply the per-app
catalog. The new `applicationCatalog` param is **optional**, so standard
behaviour is byte-unchanged.
- Fast instance command to create the table.

## Stack
**PR 1/4**, targets `main`. Followed by: (2) twenty-sdk extract/compile
→ `manifest.translations`, (3) resolution across the remaining metadata
resolvers, (4) the per-locale standard-override editor.

## Tests
Unit: `translateStandardLabel`, `resolveObjectMetadataStandardOverride`
(including the application-catalog path).

## Verification note
The remote dev environment for this branch could not complete `yarn
install` (no package-registry egress), so typecheck/lint/tests were not
run locally — **CI is the source of truth** for this stack. Changes
follow existing patterns.

https://claude.ai/code/session_01NiE7o3cd3zCLZarVkJa6UA

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