Google Zanzibar For The Rest Of Us
- Greg Sarjeant tl;dr: Google Zanzibar powers authorization for hundreds of Google’s apps so you might think it's a great model for your authorization service. But does Zanzibar's promises of scale, high availability, strong consistency mean that it’s the right solution for the rest of us? Zanzibar's defining characteristic is actually centralization, which is a massive tradeoff that’s not practical for most. The Googles of the world can pull it off, but is there a Zanzibar for the rest of us?featured in #497
Google Zanzibar For The Rest Of Us
tl;dr: Google Zanzibar powers authorization for hundreds of Google’s apps so you might think it's a great model for your authorization service. But does Zanzibar's promises of scale, high availability, strong consistency mean that it’s the right solution for the rest of us? Zanzibar's defining characteristic is actually centralization, which is a massive tradeoff that’s not practical for most. The Googles of the world can pull it off, but is there a Zanzibar for the rest of us?featured in #492
Google Zanzibar For The Rest Of Us
tl;dr: Google Zanzibar powers authorization for hundreds of Google’s apps so you might think it's a great model for your authorization service. But does Zanzibar's promises of scale, high availability, strong consistency mean that it’s the right solution for the rest of us? Zanzibar's defining characteristic is actually centralization, which is a massive tradeoff that’s not practical for most. The Googles of the world can pull it off, but is there a Zanzibar for the rest of us?featured in #490
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Switching Build Systems, Seamlessly
- Patrick Balestra tl;dr: Patrick chronicles Spotify's shift to Bazel. The move was driven by the need for a scalable build system for their growing codebase. The transition, which began in earnest in 2020, involved running two build systems side by side, adapting existing tools, and extensive testing. By 2023, the iOS Spotify app was fully built with Bazel, resulting in significant improvements in build times and developer experience.featured in #461
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How GitHub Indexes Code For Blazing Fast Search & Retrieval
- Shivang Sarawagi tl;dr: “The search engine supports global queries across 200 million repos and indexes code changes in repositories within minutes. The code search index is by far the largest cluster that GitHub runs, comprising 5184 vCPUs, 40TB of RAM, and 1.25PB of backing storage, supporting a query load of 200 requests per second on average and indexing over 53 billion source files.”featured in #458
Executing Cron Scripts Reliably At Scale
- Claire Adams tl;dr: Claire discusses the challenges of managing and executing cron scripts in a reliable manner within large-scale infrastructure. “The Job Queue is an asynchronous compute platform that runs about 9 billion “jobs” or pieces of work per day.“ Claire provides insights into techniques such as distributed execution, retries, and monitoring to ensure the dependable execution of cron jobs at scale, highlighting the need for a systematic approach to handle failures effectively.featured in #457
How Clerk Rolls Infra For Auth & User Management
tl;dr: The complex infrastructure required to build and operate an authentication system. It contrasts self-hosted authentication, where developers manage the infrastructure, with a hosted authentication solution, where all auth-related responsibilities are delegated to a specialized service. The article details the components and integrations involved, including the use of cloud services and third-party platforms like Sendgrid and Twilio. The hosted system ensures secure, scalable, and responsive authentication, with options for developers to bring their own infrastructure or configuration.featured in #441
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