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Global Identity Mesh

Architecting a multi-region OAuth2 system with sub-50ms latency.

Global Latency

<40ms

Throughput

150k RPM

Data Consistency

99.999%

01_THE_CHALLENGE
Our legacy auth system was centralized in a single region (US-East), causing 300ms+ latency for users in Europe and Asia. We needed a distributed session store that guaranteed consistency without sacrificing speed.
02_THE_SOLUTION

We implemented a globally distributed Redis cluster with CRDT-based synchronization and a gRPC communication layer between edge nodes.

01

Edge Proxy Layer

Deployed Go-based proxies at the edge to handle SSL termination and request routing.

02

Distributed Redis

Multi-region Redis clusters using global data-sync to keep sessions alive across continents.

03

gRPC Internals

Replaced REST with gRPC for internal service communication to reduce overhead by 40%.

03_IMPLEMENTATION
snippet.go
func (s *AuthServer) ValidateSession(ctx context.Context, req *pb.AuthRequest) (*pb.AuthResponse, error) {
    session, err := s.cache.Get(ctx, req.SessionID).Result()
    if err == redis.Nil {
        return nil, status.Errorf(codes.Unauthenticated, "session_expired")
    }
    return &pb.AuthResponse{Valid: true, UserID: session.UserID}, nil
}

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Rahmouni Oussama | Senior Full-Stack Engineer & Architect