DBdblohm7·May 21, 2019
Apparently somebody put together a Docker image:
https://github.com/michielbdejong/fxa-self-hosting
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fxa-self-hosting
Instructions for hosting a Firefox Accounts instance on your own domain name
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Instructions for hosting a Firefox Accounts instance on your own domain name
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This week on Hacker News
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Observed mentions: 2018-10-19 09:58:16 UTC to 2019-05-21 20:22:11 UTC. Weeks start Monday, UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| Oct 15 | 2018-10-15 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-10-22 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Oct 22 | 2018-10-22 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-10-29 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 29 | 2018-10-29 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-11-05 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 5 | 2018-11-05 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-11-12 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 12 | 2018-11-12 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-11-19 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 19 | 2018-11-19 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-11-26 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 26 | 2018-11-26 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-12-03 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 3 | 2018-12-03 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-12-10 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 10 | 2018-12-10 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-12-17 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 17 | 2018-12-17 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-12-24 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 24 | 2018-12-24 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-12-31 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 31 | 2018-12-31 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-07 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 7 | 2019-01-07 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-14 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 14 | 2019-01-14 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-21 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 21 | 2019-01-21 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-28 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 28 | 2019-01-28 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-02-04 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 4 | 2019-02-04 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-02-11 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 11 | 2019-02-11 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-02-18 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 18 | 2019-02-18 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-02-25 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 25 | 2019-02-25 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-03-04 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 4 | 2019-03-04 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-03-11 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 11 | 2019-03-11 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-03-18 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 18 | 2019-03-18 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-03-25 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 25 | 2019-03-25 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 1 | 2019-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-04-08 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 8 | 2019-04-08 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-04-15 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 15 | 2019-04-15 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-04-22 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 22 | 2019-04-22 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-04-29 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 29 | 2019-04-29 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-05-06 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 6 | 2019-05-06 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-05-13 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 13 | 2019-05-13 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-05-20 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 20 | 2019-05-20 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-05-27 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
2 sourcesThere are many ways to slice an apple.
Sometimes it is a good idea to build something as microservices, but you just have taken the wrong approach, and therefore it is a pain in the *. So slicing it a different way might still be a microservice architecture but feel much better.
Recently I thought about setting up a Firefox Sync server. The first bumper was when I learnt that the sync server has a dependency on the accounts server... But the full-featured accounts server, in turn, consists of a bunch of services of its own [1]:
- fxa-content-server
- fxa-profile-server
- fxa-auth-server
- fxa-oauth-server
- browserid-verifier
- fxa-auth-db-mysql
After seeing that I decided to tackle that project another day.
For Mozilla that architecture might be perfect, but for most people who just want to run a separate server for <10 people, that arch
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itecture is just a burden.
[1]: https://github.com/michielbdejong/fxa-self-hosting