Product Update: March

Spring has sprung!

The season is changing. There’s the new growth where there was nothing before. Taking inspiration from mother nature, this month the team at Authzed built out a variety of new functionality.

Major highlights include:

• Cloud Spanner datastore supporting performant, planet-scale SpiceDB clusters
• Thumper, our load monitoring tool, was rewritten to be fully scriptable for emulating different workloads
• The HTTP API is now available for all permission systems on Authzed.com

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 it’s off-topic goodness.

March Updates

Open Source

• SpiceDB v1.5.0 was released adding support for Cloud Spanner
• Zed v0.4.1 was released adding transparent prefix rewriting to zed import

Authzed.com / Authzed Enterprise

• The HTTP API is now being run on Authzed.com
• Multi-tenancy is now enforced with more granular permissions
• The dashboard now reloads correctly on email validation
• SpiceDB Enterprise migrations are now unified into one revision value
• Empty schemas are now valid input to the v1.WriteSchema API
• Thumper, the load monitoring tool, was rewritten to be fully scriptable for emulating different workloads
• The playground got many bug fixes focusing on YAML exporting and improved error reporting

Blogs / Talks

• We highlighted how to use our HTTP API powered by gRPC Gateway
• Jimmy was featured to talk about the SpiceDB community on CommonRoom’s Perfect 10
• Our HeavyBit interview is now available on YouTube
• Continuing to detail how SpiceDB permission checks work, Joey covered intersections and exclusions

Entropy from #random

• Simon Peyton Jones left Microsoft Research
• We read about how SPAs were a mistake, but we’ll keep relaxing in our’s
• NYC is getting its first taste of Raising Cane’s
• We started playing with the glorified bookmarks known as go links
• Konami discovered the power of emulation and announced TMNT remasters
• None of us can ever remember cron syntax even with help
• The US Senate finally unanimously agreed on something: DST policy. XKCD always has a relevant comic
• We reminisced after reading the SoFuckingAgile’s Indispensablibility post
• Spoken launched to the dismay of many popular furniture retailers
• Beer can now be brewed with 0 carbs. We still have no idea how
• Okta got breached. Okta & Auth0 users should follow their updates on the matter.
• Our friends at Dagger had their public launch!
• Google Docs FINALLY supports markdown
• We were horrified by the results non-SpiceDB users are getting from their permissions check: