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Better Auth•6mo ago

ehahn9

Advice: how to authenticate high-frequency endpoints?

I have an api endpoint which is being hit very frequently (/api/thumbnail/:provider/:id). That endpoint needs to fetch the accountaccount associated with that provider (e.g. getting/refreshing the access token) and then makes an api request to the provider (e.g. google drive) with the bearer token, etc.

Alas, this is overwhelming supabase and I'm getting 504 errors

What should I do? I'd like not to re-invent the wheel so perhaps someone can give me some advice?

Some things I'm thinking about:

1. turn on cookieCachecookieCache (duh!) - but that only caches the sessionsession not the accountsaccounts
   • so only a 50% solution
2. store more of the account data in the session cookie (how do I do that?)
3. use a redis cache for the account data instead of getting it from supabase
4. use redis for the better-auth database (I think I'd need to write my own adaptor)?
5. do a ton of nasty work on the client to pool <img> src requests with a batch thumbnail api

Advice appreciated!