AuthZed Teamauthzed.hashnode.dev·May 18, 2023ABAC on SpiceDB: Enabling Netflix’s Complex Identity TypesIntroduction The authorization team at Netflix recently sponsored work to add Attribute Based Access Control (ABAC) support to AuthZed’s open source Google Zanzibar inspired authorization system, SpiceDB. Netflix required attribute support in SpiceDB...File Permissions and Access Control Lists
AuthZed Teamauthzed.hashnode.dev·Dec 8, 2022Google Zanzibar Through Our EyesYou can skip ahead and read the paper here In the past I have written and spoken quite frequently about how incredible I find Google’s Zanzibar paper. Battle scars from my past experience building and running permissions systems for Quay and CoreOS t...google zanzibar
AuthZed Teamauthzed.hashnode.dev·Dec 7, 2021Schema Language PatternsFive months ago, we launched a new schema language with the goal of reducing the complexity of designing applications' permissions systems and with the open sourcing of SpiceDB, the number of users working with the schema language is larger than ever...spicedb
AuthZed Teamauthzed.hashnode.dev·Nov 10, 2021Migrating from PostgreSQL to Centralized Authorization with SpiceDBSpiceDB is a database designed to store relationships and compute authorization decisions. SpiceDB decouples authorization data from your applications and stores it in a centralized service, freeing you to focus on writing your applications while lea...google zanzibar
AuthZed Teamauthzed.hashnode.dev·Mar 3, 2021Identity Is Not the Foundation of Permission SystemsHave you ever chatted with a fellow developer about an application's permission system and quickly realized you're also talking about its login system? It's rather unfortunate, but these two entirely distinct systems often get merged together simply ...authorization
AuthZed Teamauthzed.hashnode.dev·Jan 16, 2021Failing OpenOriginally published at https://www.authzed.com/blog/ Understanding "Failed Open" and "Fail Closed" "Failed Open" or "Fail Closed" are common concepts that come up while speaking with software engineers. Maybe you are also a software engineer and it ...authorization
