Product Update: July

To the First of Many 🥂

While you continue to wage the endless war for Inbox Zero, you’ll now have a brief moment of rest every month while you check out the Authzed Product Update!

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 it’s off-topic goodness.

If you haven’t signed up, you can find a sign-up form on the bottom of authzed.com or you can visit the subscribe page.

July Updates

• Joey announced a new Schema Language that replaces Zanzibar’s verbose and complex “Namespace Configs”
• The Playground also got deep semantic understanding of the Schema Language and we covered how it catches any issues in your designs
• The website got a new paint-job! Huge thanks to Kaori Ogawa for her design work
• Sam teased our Zanzibar round-up from Jake’s Papers We Love presentation
• We started exploring Authzed Connect – the ability to check permissions against external sources like Stripe, Salesforce, GitHub, or your pre-existing Postgres database.
• Jake led our first scheduled maintenance which went off without a hitch. It’s not our first rodeo
• Jimmy cut the first release of a Java client for everyone stuck with JVM languages
• Joey cut the first release of a NodeJS client along with TypeScript headers
• Lookup found its way into all of the v0 client libraries
• We co-hosted a developer happy hour in NYC. Keep an eye on Twitter for future invites! 
• We post our first Product Update. You’re reading it now!

Entropy from #random

• Sam got a new app for his M1 laptop. The rest of us still have 0 problems hearing our laptop fans spin.
• AWS Infinidash was a flash in the pan. Journalists ruin everything, huh?
• Speaking of trends, Van Leeuwen now makes Mac & Cheese Ice Cream!

Trends may come and go, but there’s one thing that will always be there for you: bash scripts:

bash for president pic.twitter.com/CpIQh23az1

— memenetes (@memenetes) June 21, 2021