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Antispam efficiency improvements

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enhancement
Dominant language
Go
Stars
37
Forks
18
Avg merge
19h 22m
Merged PRs (30d)
15

Description

Now that deduplication has been migrated to Tessera's deduplication, each time an index is returned, TesseraCT reads the leaf from GCS/S3 and extract the timestamp out of it and build the SCT again. We can cache this timestamp to make subsequent similar requests faster. We could also consider:

  • caching the entire SCT (this would have parsing implications, as well as memory usage impact)
  • caching the timestamp and the index, then disabling antispam caching on Tessera (this would cut memory usage and remove layered caches)
  • caching the timestamp of all entries in the bundle from which an entry is being deduped for a given request (To get the timestamp of entry X in a bundle, all the entries with a smaller index need to be parsed first, so their timestamp would be available. This might not be a good idea depending on user query patterns though.)

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Research direction

Trace the TesseraCT path that handles returned indexes, reads leaves from GCS/S3, extracts timestamps, and rebuilds SCT responses. Compare the listed timestamp, SCT, and bundle-entry caching options, then validate that repeated similar requests become faster without incorrect results or unacceptable memory use.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
aws, go, google-cloud
Domain
backend, performance
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
30/100

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