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AuthZed Blog

Articles from the AuthZed team about SpiceDB, Fine Grained Authorization, Google Zanzibar, and engineering culture.

Coding with AI: My Personal Experience

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Jake Moshenko
July 16, 2025
AuthZed CEO Jake Moshenko shares his experience coding with AI.
8 minutes

AuthZed Cloud is Coming Soon

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Jimmy Zelinskie
July 3, 2025
AuthZed Cloud is coming soon, expanding beyond enterprise-only solutions to offer self-service authorization infrastructure for companies of all sizes. Join our waitlist to be first in line when we launch this game-changing platform.
2 minutes

AuthZed Brings Additional Observability to Authorization via the Datadog Integration

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Jimmy Zelinskie
June 24, 2025
Gain instant visibility into your authorization layer with AuthZed’s new Datadog integration. Stream SpiceDB metrics—latency, cache efficiency, datastore performance, and more—into the dashboards you already trust, so you can correlate events across your stack and troubleshoot faster without extra tooling.
3 minutes

Introducing Authorization Infrastructure for AI

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Sam Kim
June 13, 2025
AuthZed provides permissions systems that help secure and improve your RAG and agentic AI systems
5 minutes

Introducing The AuthZed Cloud API

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Jimmy Zelinskie
May 28, 2025
Announcing the AuthZed Cloud API in Tech Preview—an API for managing AuthZed Dedicated Cloud infrastructure. Following the cloud computing pattern of lifecycle management APIs, this new tool allows you to manage permissions systems and restrict API-level access to SpiceDB within your authorization infrastructure.
2 minutes

A Closer Look at AuthZed Dedicated

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Jimmy Zelinskie
May 20, 2025
AuthZed tackles broken access control through innovative authorization infrastructure. After launching open-source SpiceDB in 2021, they created AuthZed Dedicated Cloud—offering enterprises the security benefits of private clouds with public cloud convenience. This middle-ground solution provides isolated authorization data processing with dedicated resources, perfect for regulated industries requiring enhanced security.
3 minutes

Building Better Authorization Infrastructure with ARM: Benefits from Laptop to Cloud

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Sam Kim
May 14, 2025
How ARM helps AuthZed build and operate authorization infrastructure, from day-to-day productivity gains to cost-effective, performant cloud compute.
4 minutes

Zed v0.30.2 Release

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Maria Inés Parnisari
May 1, 2025
Zed CLI provides seamless interaction with SpiceDB clusters, allowing you to manage schemas, relationships, and permissions checks. Our v0.30.2 release adds composable schema support, automatic retries, backup functionality, and upcoming Windows package integration via Chocolatey.
2 minutes

Techstrong.tv Interview with Jimmy Zelinskie and Pierre-Alexandre Lacerte from Upgrade

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Sam Kim
April 8, 2025
Watch AuthZed CPO Jimmy Zelinskie and Upgrade's Pierre-Alexandre Lacerte discuss modern authorization challenges, relationship-based access control, and why companies shouldn't build their own authorization systems in this insightful KubeCon Europe 2025 interview with Techstrong.
6 minutes

Meet Dibs: The Mascot Bringing SpiceDB to Life

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Corey Thomas
March 25, 2025
Meet Dibs the Muad'dib, SpiceDB's new mascot that embodies our commitment to resilience, adaptability, and precision in solving complex authorization challenges. Drawing inspiration from Frank Herbert's Dune universe, this vigilant desert creature symbolizes how SpiceDB navigates the harsh terrain of modern access control with efficiency and intelligence.
3 minutes

The Evolution of Expiration

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Jimmy Zelinskie
February 13, 2025
We are excited to announce that as of the SpiceDB 1.40 release, users now have access to a new experimental feature: Relationship Expiration. When writing relationships, requests can now include an optional expiration time, after which a relationship will be treated as removed, and eventually automatically cleaned up.
5 minutes

Build Time-Bound Permissions with Relationship Expiration in SpiceDB

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Jess Hustace
February 13, 2025
Today we are announcing the experimental release of Relationship Expiration, which is a straightforward, secure, and dynamic way to manage time-bound permissions directly within SpiceDB.
5 minutes

DeepSeek: Balancing Potential and Precaution with SpiceDB

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Sam Kim
January 31, 2025
DeepSeek has emerged as a phenomenon since its announcement in late December 2024 and security has been at the forefront of recent conversation. At AuthZed, we recognize that trust and security fundamentally shape how organizations evaluate AI models, which is why we're sharing our perspective on this crucial discussion.
3 minutes

Our SOC2 Renewal and Reflections on Compliance

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Jimmy Zelinskie
January 7, 2025
I'm happy to announce that AuthZed recently renewed our SOC2 compliance and our SOC2 Type 2 and SOC3 reports are now available on security.authzed.com. Having just endured the audit process again, I figured it would be a good time to reflect on my personal feelings toward compliance and how my opinion has evolved.
5 minutes

The Dual-Write Problem

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Tanner Stirrat
January 2, 2025
The dual-write problem is present in any distributed system and is difficult to solve. We discuss where the problem arises and several approaches.
11 minutes

Deploy SpiceDB on Amazon ECS

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Sohan Maheshwar
December 23, 2024
Here's how you can deploy SpiceDB on Amazon ECS (but you probably shouldn't in prod!)
12 minutes

SpiceDB v1.39 Released

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Sam Kim
December 20, 2024
The SpiceDB v1.39 release delivers enhanced monitoring through native histograms, smarter health checks, and transaction metadata improvement.
3 minutes

Fine Grained Authorization using SpiceDB for Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)

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Evan Corkrean
December 4, 2024
Want to build enterprise-ready AI that respects data access permissions? Learn how Relationship-based Access Control (ReBAC) provides superior security for Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems by enabling pre-filtered queries and granular access control through relationship-based access controls. Read on to discover why ReBAC outperforms traditional authorization models for AI applications.
7 minutes

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