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Seeking alternative compression. Hopefully wrong on average. Shameless. Started @getcognito and @bloom

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    1. John Backus‏ @backus Mar 25

      The number of requests/second @infura_io must handle is insane. Every active Metamask user is sending them ~25 eth_getBlockByNumber calls a minute. If 50% of Metamask users have the extension enabled thats 200k requests/second right there.

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    2. John Backus‏ @backus Mar 25

      The fact that Infura is used by basically every wallet that doesn't sync the full chain is interesting. @infura_io and @metamask_io's web3 provider-engine (http://github.com/MetaMask/provider-engine …) are doing a lot of the legwork in fixing the (IMO) incorrect abstractions web3 assumes.

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    3. John Backus‏ @backus Mar 25

      From a business perspective, I wouldn't be surprised if @ConsenSys ends up making a lot of money from Infura in the future. Lots of value in being the defacto pipe that a majority of traffic is piped through.

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    4. John Backus‏ @backus Mar 25

      Infura could be to Consensys what Onavo VPN is to FB: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onavo  (not making any privacy / ethical claims here, just pointing out the value of being in that position)

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    5. John Backus‏ @backus Mar 25

      Of course this a bit different with blockchain since a lot is public. Still, you could get private dapp adoption insights by tracking IPFS reads and eth_call usage both of which are not public

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    6. John Backus‏ @backus Mar 25

      If I were @infura_io I would announce way more aggressive rate limiting unless you have an api key ASAP. From an engineering, security, and business perspective you want to know who is sending what traffic. Figure it out ASAP because you'll need a long deprecation period.

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    7. John Backus‏ @backus Mar 25

      Even something like Reddit's API would work fine. For Reddit, you get rate limited after ONE api request (lol) until you set your user agent to something unique and identifiable.

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    8. John Backus‏ @backus Mar 25

      Palatable transition path: 1. Announce users have 3 months to add a user agent 2. Three months later just make offending requests really slow 3. Start 429ing a small % a month after that. 4. Actually fully enforce after one more month

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    9. E.G. Galano‏ @egalano Mar 27
      Replying to @backus

      Thanks for the input @backus. We're actively working hard on a new authentication format for improved security and we are working on a transition plan very similar to your proposal.

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      John Backus‏ @backus Mar 27
      Replying to @egalano

      Cool! Good luck :) I think you guys are doing things the right way so far, I was just talking with an eye to the future since I know iterating on API companies in particular can be tricky

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