[camgunz]

Yeah I think there are fundamental challenges with microservices that are very hard to address unless you're someone like Google and you can invent BigTable and Zanzibar. It used to be you needed to move processing into app code and out of the database because they were hard and expensive to scale, but that's not true anymore.

[jzelinskie]

The nice part is that we're no longer at the beginning of this journey. BigTable and Zanzibar already have open source equivalents: HBase/Cassandra-likes (hard to pin BigTable to just one thing) and SpiceDB. As these projects mature, they only become easier for folks to adopt into their architectures and get all the same benefits.

[camgunz]

Yeah but if you choose something like BigQuery you really don't need microservices, and thus you probably don't need a distributed auth solution either.