Topic

Identity and authentication infrastructure

Systems that establish who a user or service is and what it may access. They sit in front of most other services as a shared dependency.

Current clusters

build1 publisher

Salesforce's identity team replaces per-server rate limits with fleet-wide quotas to hold five nines

Salesforce's Cloud Atlas team rebuilt rate limiting for its identity store around coordinator-free global quotas and load shedding to protect five nines. The diagnosis fits any shared tier-0 service, though the published account stops before showing how the quotas stay in sync.

Publishers:engineering.salesforce.com

Reality

Evidence35
Adoption15
Hype gap+15
Incentives50
Confidence45