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by caust1c 266 days ago
Wait, what? A database in 2025 doesn't support any kind of auth? A financial database? WTF?

C'mon folks, the least you can do is put a guide for adding an auth proxy or auth layer on your site.

Particularly since you don't use HTTP (cant easily tell from the docs, I'm assuming), then folks are going to be left wondering: "well how the hell do I add an auth proxy without HTTP" and just put it on the open internet...

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Joran from TigerBeetle here!

TigerBeetle is our open source contribution. We want to make a technical contribution to the world. And we have priorities on the list of things we want to support, and support properly, with high quality, in time.

At the same time, it's important I think that we encourage ourselves and each other here, you and I, to show respect to projects that care about craftsmanship and doing things properly, so that we don't become entitled and take open source projects and maintainers in general for granted.

Let's keep it positive!

> TigerBeetle is our open source contribution.

Wait, is it open source?? Since when? I always thought it was proprietary

Apache 2.0 since day 0, since it came out of a non-profit central bank switch by the Gates Foundation, which is also Apache 2.0.

Our view is that this kind of infrastructure is simply too valuable, too critical, not to be open source.

For more about our open source and business philosophies, which we see as orthogonal, see this interview we did with Jerod Santo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0kzYlCTUuc
Exactly my thoughts, and yes, it's not HTTP. Not a big deal, I guess, if they explain how to work around it...
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