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WalkthroughYHub adds configurable identity, document-abilities, and access caches. The server uses these caches during identity resolution and document permission checks. The reset-connections handler invalidates cached authorization entries for a document before rechecking access. Tests cover cache behavior, configuration, and server wiring. Documentation describes cache settings, keys, storage, and invalidation. Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to
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Other observations - It is up to you to decide whether or not you want to implement it:
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The SCAN in invalidation. Redis MATCH filters after scanning, so cost grows with the total keyspace, not with the document's keys. Suggest a per-document generation counter or a similar one-write invalidation.
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No single-flight. A cold cache under a burst of connections to one document makes N backend calls, which is the load this change was meant to reduce.
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The commit message vs the code. It says the access date is invalidated by "user-scoped kicks", but the code deletes access entries on every kick. Either the message or the code should change.
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From an readability point of view, I wonder if this is starting to get a bit hard to follow.
Would it make sense to handle the cache and the API calls into backend.ts?
We could have something like:
const { abilities, identified } = await resolveAbilities(`Same for the others resolveUserid resolveAccess , wdyt ?
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LRU cache could be appropriate for this.
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Record the cached flight as a hit, or keep miss and document the choice.
Line 199 counts every coalesced waiter as a miss, but only one of those waiters calls the backend. Under a burst, yhub_authz_cache_lookups_total{result="miss"} therefore counts more backend calls than happen. The README tells operators to tune TTLs from this metric. Either add a coalesced result label for lines 204-205, or document that a miss can be served by a shared flight.
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Update the shared-flight path in the cache lookup so waiters returning the
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A connection to the collaboration server — websocket or http fallback —
can chain up to three calls to the backend: users/me, documents/{id} and
accesses/me. On the fallback poll path this repeats every few seconds per
client, and the calls bypass the backend throttling (X-Y-Provider-Key),
so a busy instance hammers the backend unthrottled.
Add an opt-in authz cache in yhub, three layers with different
invalidation physics:
- identity: users/me -> userid, in-process per replica, keyed on the
SHA-256 of the Cookie header. Nothing can invalidate it and nothing
needs to: a dead session fails closed at the abilities fetch. Kills
the users/me call on every poll and REST request.
- abilities: the documents/{id} verdict, in the shared redis per
(document, cookie hash). The one payload a stale entry would
over-grant, so reset-connections retires every verdict of the
document — a single generation write — BEFORE triggering the recheck;
the recheck then re-runs authorize against post-invalidation state
and the revocation stays immediate. The TTL is only the backstop for
a lost kick. Anonymous callers share one entry per document: what
they may do is the link configuration, and nothing about them
distinguishes one from another.
- access date: the accesses/me created_at bounding the history a user
may read. Append-mostly by design, retired by the same per-document
kick as the abilities — a stale earlier date would widen the readable
history, hence the longest TTL of the three.
All three TTLs default to 0: caching off, byte-identical behavior.
Backend refusals (401/403/404) are cached like any verdict, so a client
that lost access costs one call per TTL instead of one per poll. An
unanswered backend is never cached — an error is not a permission
decision. Keys carry only sha256 hashes, never session ids.
Warm-state connections and polls make zero backend calls. Watch
yhub_authz_cache_lookups_total{layer,result} against
yhub_backend_request_duration_seconds{route} before raising the TTLs.
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A connection to the collaboration server — websocket or http fallback — can chain up to three calls to the backend: users/me, documents/{id} and accesses/me. On the fallback poll path this repeats every few seconds per client, and the calls bypass the backend throttling (X-Y-Provider-Key), so a busy instance hammers the backend unthrottled.
Add an opt-in authz cache in yhub, three layers with different invalidation physics:
All three TTLs default to 0: caching off, byte-identical behavior. Backend refusals (403/404) are cached like any verdict, so a client that lost access costs one call per TTL instead of one per poll. An unanswered backend is never cached — an error is not a permission decision. Keys carry only sha256 hashes, never session ids.
Warm-state connections and polls make zero backend calls. Watch yhub_authz_cache_lookups_total{layer,result} against yhub_backend_request_duration_seconds{route} before raising the TTLs.
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