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    1. Lea Kissner‏Verified account @LeaKissner 6 Jun 2019

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      Story time! Zanzibar was not the original name of the system. It was originally called "Spice". I have read Dune more times than I can count and an access control system is designed so that people can safely share things, so the project motto was "the shares must flow"https://twitter.com/LeaKissner/status/1136626971566149633 …

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      A few years back, Abhishek Parmar (at the time, the TL of Bigtable) and I started Zanzibar to handle access control for Google products. Like... basically all Google products. The paper is public (and will be in ATC '19): https://ai.google/research/pubs/pub48190 … Other bits not in the paper 🧵🧵
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    2. Lea Kissner‏Verified account @LeaKissner 6 Jun 2019

      Moving Google's access control logic and systems over to another system (new dependency for basically all of production!) and committing to a new semantic for access control (product implications!) was a big deal, so we went to my SVP's review meeting.

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    3. Lea Kissner‏Verified account @LeaKissner 6 Jun 2019

      And after the whole presentation, the presentation of a system which a whole bunch of people (including @bstoler) thought would never work, my SVP had exactly one comment: we needed to rename the project. Because "Spice" was too porn-y. I was baffled. Everyone was.

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    4. Lea Kissner‏Verified account @LeaKissner 6 Jun 2019

      Apparently there had been a "Spice channel" back in the 90s or something. None of us had that association, so hadn't flagged it. Project: approved. Name: denied. And now it's named Zanzibar, one of the spice islands. 🤷‍♀️

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    5. Ficus Kirkpatrick‏ @ficus 6 Jun 2019
      Replying to @LeaKissner

      In 2000, I worked at a company for one day (but that's another story). It was called Silicon Spice and every single person I've ever mentioned it to has given me a hard eyebrow.

      1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
    6. Lea Kissner‏Verified account @LeaKissner 6 Jun 2019
      Replying to @ficus

      OK, I need to hear this story. What did this company even do?

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    7. Ficus Kirkpatrick‏ @ficus 6 Jun 2019
      Replying to @LeaKissner

      Chips for telecom systems! Terrible name. The story isn't that exciting - I chose to go there because I was burned out from working at a scrappy startup and it paid more than any job I had before.

      1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
    8. Ficus Kirkpatrick‏ @ficus 6 Jun 2019
      Replying to @ficus @LeaKissner

      On my first day I concluded that the team I was working with were a bunch of jerks and I went home discouraged and came in the next day and said "Sorry, but I think I made a mistake."

      1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
    9. Ficus Kirkpatrick‏ @ficus 6 Jun 2019
      Replying to @ficus @LeaKissner

      I remember being in a meeting where they said "we have to design an API for memory management" and I said "what's wrong with malloc?" and some dude witheringly and patronizingly said "thanks for the suggestion, but this is an embedded system". 🙄

      2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
      Ficus Kirkpatrick‏ @ficus 6 Jun 2019
      Replying to @ficus @LeaKissner

      My friends ribbed me when they sold to Broadcom in 2002 but quitting that job was one of the best things I ever did because within the same week @lockheimer referred me to Danger, a job that changed my life forever and made it possible for me to join Android at the beginning.

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