Product Update: June

This June, we dedicated ourselves

We’ve kept ourselves fairly quiet during the past month, but that’s because today I have the honor of sharing some great news. I’m excited to announce that in June we’ve shipped the first iteration of Authzed Dedicated. We’re all extremely proud of what the team has crafted: the world’s first dedicated offering of SpiceDB.

Authzed Dedicated comes with the functionality that you’d expect from a dedicated database service, but with our unique twist. All SpiceDB clusters are managed by our expert SRE team who carry the pager. Each environment is secured by a private network that is peered only to your internal network. Beyond configuring the cloud region, we’ve taken an eye towards reducing latency everywhere we can. Behind the scenes, we’ve built a whole new deployment stack. This stack lead to the development of some new projects that we plan to open source, so keep a lookout for future product updates!

Major highlights this month include:

• Authzed Dedicated is now available!
• Victor joined the team as a full-time software engineer
• GitHub sponsored the SpiceDB maintainers for Maintainer Month
• SpiceDB v1.8.0 & v1.9.0 shipped with improved datastore performance, deep health checking, and more!
• The community is growing! We broke 500 users in Discord

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 improving datastore performance and feature-parity for MySQL
• The deprecated v0 SpiceDB API was removed from open source in v1.9.0
• GitHub sponsored the SpiceDB maintainers for Maintainer Month
• The documentation landing page got a facelift

Authzed

• Authzed Dedicated is now available!
• Dedicated now supports single-region AWS deployments
• Dedicated networking on AWS is now peered via PrivateLink and designed for low-latency
• Our community broke 500 users in Discord and 800 followers on Twitter

Blogs / Talks

• The J-team went upstate to Bear Mountain for LFGNYC
• Jimmy reshared his podcast with Cisco’s Cloud Unfiltered podcast

Entropy from #random

• Our friends over at buf released Connect their gRPC alternative
• Our favorite Go library, errgroup, got the ability to limit the number of active goroutines
• WorkOS acquired Modulz
• Ever wonder what GameBoy camera looks like with a Canon lens?
• WWDC 2022 aired. Thankfully our M1s are not completely superseded… yet!
• Did we mention that Rosetta for x86 Linux is going to be a thing?
• The Cuphead DLC finally shipped!
• GitHub’s Atom editor was sunset – time to migrate to VSCode
• Apparently there just aren’t enough people in the US to sustain Amazon warehouses
• Amazon doesn’t just need living people: they’re also teaming up with the deceased for Alexa
• The folks over at Azure released Eraser to clean up non-running images from Kubernetes clusters
• Python 3.11 has some really nice new quality of life features and performance improvements
• What does your monitor config tell us about you?