#341 – November 10, 2019
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An Illustrated Guide to OAuth and OpenID Connect
In the “stone age” days of the Internet, sharing information between services was easy. You simply gave your username and password for one service to another so they could login to your account and grab whatever information they wanted!
The open source Git project just released Git 2.24 with features and bug fixes from over 78 contributors, 21 of them new. Here’s our look at some of the most exciting features and changes introduced since Git 2.23.
How Much of a Genius-Level Move Was Using Binary Space Partitioning in Doom?
In 1993, id Software released the first-person shooter Doom, which quickly became a phenomenon. The game is now considered one of the most influential games of all time.
How Figma’s multiplayer technology works
When we first started building multiplayer functionality in Figma four years ago, we decided to develop our own solution. No other design tool offered this feature, and we didn’t want to use operational transforms (a.k.a. OTs), the standard multiplayer algorithm popularized by apps like Google Docs. As a startup we value the ability to ship features quickly, and OTs were unnecessarily complex for our problem space. So we built a custom multiplayer system that's simpler and easier to implement.
The Retry pattern works well with these kinds of failures since we know (or we think we know) that they won’t happen again on a future call. However, there are times when these transient failures can become total failures. In a situation like this, the Retry pattern stops being useful and, in fact, might even make things worse by consuming critical resources. When facing an issue like this, it’s preferable to have the operation immediately fail so it can be managed by the system. It’d be also desirable that the service is only invoked again if there are chances of a correct result.