May 18, 2023 · 10 min read · Introduction 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...
Join discussionDec 8, 2022 · 3 min read · You 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...
Join discussionDec 7, 2021 · 3 min read · Five 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...
Join discussionNov 10, 2021 · 5 min read · SpiceDB 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...
Join discussionMar 3, 2021 · 6 min read · Have 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 ...
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Jan 16, 2021 · 3 min read · Originally 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 ...
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