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AuthZed Blog

Articles from the AuthZed team about SpiceDB, Fine Grained Authorization, Google Zanzibar, and engineering culture.

Product Update: April & May

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Jimmy Zelinskie
June 13, 2022
A product update double feature
3 minutes

Automatic release notification in SpiceDB and zed

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Joey Schorr
May 18, 2022
The engineering behind notifying users about updates to SpiceDB and zed
8 minutes

Product Update: March

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Jimmy Zelinskie
April 12, 2022
Spring has sprung!
2 minutes

Your commonly-held technical opinion is actually wrong! (Read on to discover why it’s really mostly right)

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Evan Cordell
March 30, 2022
This blog post challenges your preconceived notions while subtly re-affirming that you were right all along
2 minutes

Have you met...our HTTP API?

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Sam Kim
March 17, 2022
A quick guide to configure and try the Authzed HTTP API
4 minutes

Product Update: February

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Jimmy Zelinskie
March 11, 2022
Being transparent about our views on transparency
4 minutes

Check it out #2: How intersections and exclusions are computed in SpiceDB and Authzed

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Joey Schorr
March 3, 2022
Walking the graph to resolve permissions answers
7 minutes

Our GitHub merge workflow

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Sam Kim
February 24, 2022
And why we’d be happy to replace it.
5 minutes

Post-Mortem: Feb 16 2022

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Jimmy Zelinskie
February 22, 2022
A deep-dive into our elevated latency last week
6 minutes

Writing relationships to SpiceDB

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Joey Schorr
February 17, 2022
A tale of writing to two databases
7 minutes

Product Update: January

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Jimmy Zelinskie
February 10, 2022
A new year, a new set of updates
4 minutes

Online Schema Migrations in SpiceDB

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Evan Cordell
February 3, 2022
How to perform online schema migrations with SpiceDB or Authzed.
5 minutes

M1 to the Max

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Sam Kim
January 27, 2022
Part 2 of an unexpected series on our development environment.
6 minutes

Build you a Google Groups

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Jake Moshenko
January 20, 2022
Companion guide to Google Groups modeling video.
9 minutes

Using GitHub to manage your first CVE

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Joey Schorr
January 13, 2022
Creating a formal process for handling security vulnerabilities using GitHub
12 minutes

Product Update: December

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Jimmy Zelinskie
January 7, 2022
Tis the season... for product updates
2 minutes

Why model my users in SpiceDB?

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Jimmy Zelinskie
January 5, 2022
Details on one of SpiceDB's largest deviations from Zanzibar
3 minutes

Unveiling wildcard permissions in SpiceDB

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Joey Schorr
December 23, 2021
A public display of development
3 minutes