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		kache_ on Feb 16, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Aserto: Developer API for permissions and RBAC Reading the Zanzibar paper is actually how I learned about how powerful of an optimization technique denormalization could be

ogazitt on Feb 16, 2022 [–]

It's definitely a good paper :)

Denormalization has been around since Date/Codd invented 6NF and relational databases, and then we all realized that most applications have to precompute some joins in order to execute in a performant fashion. In SQL Server we used to call them "materialized views".

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