November 2023 Product Updates

As the days get shorter and the air crisper, we're stoked to bring you some warm and exciting product updates!

A few highlights:

• Two SpiceDB releases this month: v1.27 and v1.28
• Two new videos: Interpreting SpiceDB OpenTelemetry traces and SpiceDB Academy | Language Primer
• Updates to the zed CLI and SpiceDB operator

Announcements

🥜 Evan Cordell discussed the highly relatable problem of getting Policy in your ReBAC and getting ReBAC in your Policy in his latest blog: Policy-Based Access Control (PBAC) vs Google Zanzibar: When You Should Use One or the Other

🔎 Victor shared SpiceDB’s handy-dandy tracing UX improvements in a short video: SpiceDB Tracing: How to interpret our OpenTelemetry traces

🎓 Jake taught the fundamentals of modeling permissions and schema building in the first-ever episode of SpiceDB Academy! SpiceDB Academy | Language Primer

SpiceDB

Releases

• SpiceDB v1.27 | Release Notes

  • Enhanced traces: identify high-demand parts of your schema
  • Over 50% latency and CPU usage reduction possible with new dispatch deduplication
  • Observability improvements: Go runtime and Spanner performance metrics now available
  • Improved Spanner performance with new watch-driven schema caching compatibility
  • MySQL datastore migration adds a new index addressing inefficiencies in the
  • Watch API Deprecated support for MySQL v5 (EOL)
  • Special thanks to community contributor @bradengroom for fixing Issue 1217 - Run postgres datastore tests with pgbouncer

• SpiceDB v1.28 | Release Notes

  • Datastore deduplication improvements
  • New "SpiceDB Repair" command will help folks running pg_dump / pg_restore on Postgres-based SpiceDBs
  • Better error reporting on Watch API for CockroachDB-based SpiceDBs

• SpiceDB-operator v1.12 | Release Notes

  • You can now define the filepath for the CA certificate in the tls config, eliminating the need for additional processing when creating a secret that resides in a different namespace.
  • Adds upgrade edges for SpiceDB 1.26 to the stable channel, which has been out for a while without any known regressions. There is a single-phase migration for postgres.

• zed CLI v0.15.1 | Release Notes

  • Restore and backup commands can take a long time, depending on the number of relationships. When trying to abort some instances of those commands, zed wouldn't react to Control+C because context cancelation wasn't being checked. With this change the operation will abort immediately⚡

Entropy

• In Discord, Yordis shared an easy and delicious method for making Cuban coffee in an imusa pot (you can also use a Moka or similar). Add two tablespoons of cane sugar in the bottom of the pot, add your coffee/espresso as normal and cook it like you normally would. It came out perfect!

• A lively discussion in the Discord on mechanical keyboard suggestions:

  • The HHKB Studio features a gesture pad aka “the Thinkpad nubbin”
  • The small but mighty NuPhy Air75 came highly recommended
  • The open source Launch keyboard from System76 got rave reviews after demoing at a conference.

• The AuthZed team shared more breakfast cereal-related trivia:

  • Apparently Oreo-Os have a new recipe since they launched
  • Timing of cereal consumption varied greatly from breakfast to late at night and even in the afternoon.
  • Golden raisins as a cereal topping were generally celebrated