Case Study: Npm uses Rust for its CPU-bound bottlenecks [pdf]

Re:Case Study: Npm uses Rust for its CPU-bound bottlenecks [... by yawaramin on Sunday March 03, 2019 @03:39PM (#19296701)

Couldn't you implement the authorization logic in, say, Redis? Then the npm service is I/O-bound again, and everyone is doing the job they're optimized for.

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Re:Case Study: Npm uses Rust for its CPU-bound bottlenecks [... by Filligree on Monday March 04, 2019 @09:10AM (#19301319)

Authorization checks aren't that expensive. The overhead of using an external service might well make it take up more hardware overall.

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