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Re:Aserto: Developer API for permissions and RBAC by kache_ on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @03:26PM (#30365225)
Reading the Zanzibar paper is actually how I learned about how powerful of an optimization technique denormalization could be
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Re:Aserto: Developer API for permissions and RBAC by ogazitt on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @06:07PM (#30367106)
It's definitely a good paper :)

Denormalization has been around since Date/Codd invented 6NF and relational databases, and then we all realized that most applications have to precompute some joins in order to execute in a performant fashion. In SQL Server we used to call them "materialized views".

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