A product update double feature
This time around we've got a bargain: we're wrapping up 2 months of progress in the same update. In addition to the updates below, there have been lots of invisible changes to improve the performance and stability of Authzed.com. We've also been heads down privately bringing together a bunch of exciting new developments that we can't wait to share. Keep a look out for future announcements!
Major highlights include:
- Brad joined the team as a full-time SRE
- SpiceDB released huge performance improvements and support for MySQL
- The v0 SpiceDB API was deprecated and is being removed.
- Zed released warnings for old SpiceDB versions and the ability to store
--insecurein contexts
ICYMI: in addition to posting weekly blog posts, we're now officially posting monthly wrap-ups of events and new functionality we've added to Authzed. We're also giving everyone a little taste of our Slack's random channel and all of its off-topic goodness.
Updates
Open Source
- SpiceDB released huge performance improvements and support for MySQL
- The v0 SpiceDB API was deprecated and is being removed.
- Zed released warnings for old SpiceDB versions and the ability to store
--insecurein contexts - The proposal for caveats got a lot of good discussion
- A proposal was created for an API to discover permissions for a resource
- A proposal was created for intersection arrows which would simplify ABAC designs
Authzed
- The playground now has a grid UI for inputting relationships
- SpiceDB & Authzed.com underwent a penetration test
- Chat support is now fully on Discord
- The blog now has an RSS feed
Blogs / Talks
- Joey described the SpiceDB release process, how to get notified, and how devs can reuse our code
- Jimmy hopped on the Cloud Unfiltered podcast at KubeCon Valencia
Entropy from #random
- Apple joined the fray alongside Google and Microsoft for enterprise software suites
- We learned all about the hard drive we never knew we never wanted
- Atlassian had an outage, but maintained honesty about their support SLAs
- Have you seen how heatsink fins are made? We hadn't either
- DuckDuckGo brought their mobile browser to the Mac
- GitHub Actions pricing had a momentary increase
- Why buy a home when you can have a castle? Wait... why aren't we working from a castle?
- Gophers writing performant code: I bet you didn't know about this trick!
- Remember when Elon tried to buy Twitter? Yeah, we're done talking about it, too
- Google's smart watch got leaked
- We found someone patching Kronos into CockroachDB! We keep our eyes on the clock!
- Congrats to our friends at Tailscale on raising their Series B
- Sam surprised us with his enthusiasm for trackballs
- We started using whimsical for mock-ups
- CloudFlare launched... a database service. When can we call them a cloud provider?
- Google finally launched a competitor to AWS Aurora: AlloyDB
- Vercel continues to find ways to become even faster
- We finally caught wind of this "data mesh" trend
- There are almost as many articles on Go's generics as there used to be complaints about them. We liked this explanation of calculating type sets, though.
- Pinterest wrote about memcache performance and it's wild to see folks measuring the 99.9 percentile
- Who ever said there's no free lunch? New York got it... oh wait.
- Our friends at Tilt got acquired by Docker. Congrats!
- Wait... even VMWare is being acquired!
- As of April 1st, the SpiceDB repository more stargazers than our previous project, Quay:
We waited too long before open sourcing and building a community for Quay, but we're not making that mistake again! As of today SpiceDB passed Quay in GitHub stars! pic.twitter.com/eADDR7wHg7
— Jimmy Zelinskie (@jimmyzelinskie) April 1, 2022
