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AuthZed Blog

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

How small is too small?

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Jake Moshenko
December 15, 2021
Tradeoffs to consider when modeling your permissions
6 minutes

Schema Language Patterns

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Sam Kim
December 7, 2021
Helpful patterns for defining schemas
3 minutes

Product Update: November

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Jimmy Zelinskie
December 1, 2021
This month we give thanks -- and product updates.
2 minutes

Consistent Hash Load Balancing for gRPC

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Evan Cordell
November 24, 2021
Extending grpc-go with a custom resolver and loadbalancer implementations.
3 minutes

The Architecture of SpiceDB

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Jake Moshenko
November 17, 2021
The architecture and code of SpiceDB.
11 minutes

Migrating from PostgreSQL to Centralized Authorization with SpiceDB

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Evan Cordell
November 10, 2021
Learn how to bootstrap SpiceDB from playground or PostgreSQL.
4 minutes

Product Update: October

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Jimmy Zelinskie
November 1, 2021
Our first month focused on OSS
2 minutes

User Defined Roles

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Jake Moshenko
October 27, 2021
Modeling user-defined roles in Authzed schema.
9 minutes

We picked Go for the Ecosystem

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Jimmy Zelinskie
October 20, 2021
Why we're building our company on Go in 2021
3 minutes

The One Crucial Difference Between Spanner and CockroachDB

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Evan Cordell
October 14, 2021
How We Reproduce and Prevent the New Enemy problem in SpiceDB.
13 minutes

Product Update: September

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Jimmy Zelinskie
October 6, 2021
Authzed's First Anniversary
2 minutes

SpiceDB is Open Source Zanzibar!

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Jake Moshenko
September 30, 2021
SpiceDB, the Zanzibar implementation behind Authzed.com, is now open source.
4 minutes

Product Update: August

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Jimmy Zelinskie
September 8, 2021
August is for Authzed!
2 minutes

Securing Prometheus with prom-authzed-proxy

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Jimmy Zelinskie
August 18, 2021
A new proxy for authorizing PromQL queries
2 minutes

Observability shouldn't be private

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Jimmy Zelinskie
August 11, 2021
How we're opening up our internal metrics to all of our users
2 minutes

Product Update: July

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Jimmy Zelinskie
August 2, 2021
We've been quietly building, but we'll remain quiet no more!
2 minutes

What should my startup build next?

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Sam Kim
July 28, 2021
Techniques for prioritizing ideas and choosing feature work.
4 minutes

Syntax and Semantics

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Joey Schorr
July 21, 2021
Semantic highlighting in Monaco
8 minutes