Product Update: September

Wrapping up a summer of updates

Summer is officially over. While some of us will miss the warm temperatures in NYC, the rest of the team reminds us that Authzed is fully remote and we’re free to move someplace warmer 🤣. Throughout the summer, we’ve accomplished a ton. Publicly, we’ve had quite a few large open source launches this summer. Privately, we’ve been laser-focused on maturing SpiceDB Dedicated: our product for private, fully-managed cloud deployments perfect for taking your permissions into production. But, all of that was not without some fun in the sun at our off-site in upstate New York.

Major highlights this summer include:

• SpiceDB v1.10 through v1.13 were released bringing performance gains and the LookupSubjects API
• The SpiceDB Kubernetes Operator is now open source
• Authzed joined the CNCF
• The Discord community has grown to over 700 people

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

• The SpiceDB Kubernetes Operator is now open source!
• Our library for building Kubernetes Operators controller-idioms is now open source!
• SpiceDB v1.10 through v1.13 were released bringing performance gains and the LookupSubjects API
• Zed v0.5 through v0.7 were released adding the --explain flag and LookupSubjects API
• We consolidated various examples into an examples GitHub repository
• We joined our friends at Polar Signals in sponsoring open source developers we depend on

Authzed

• Authzed had a company-wide off-site in upstate New York!
• Authzed joined the CNCF
• The Playground is now powered by WASM, decreasing latency by 90%
• We completely redesigned our pricing page

Community

• The Discord community has grown to over 700 people
• We created an awesome list thats projects in the community
• Jake presented SpiceDB’s CRDB datastore at RoachFest 2022
• Jimmy gave a webinar on Cloud Native Authorization for the CNCF

Entropy from #random

• Meta and Berkeley published an apples-to-oranges comparison of top distributed SQL databases
• M1 Mac instances are now available on EC2
• OSS projects beware: there was a massive malware attack on GitHub
• Unrelated, GitHub also launched SSH-signing for commits
• Acorn was launched by ex-Rancher Labs folks
• We learned all about the backends for Apple & Google Pay from a tweet-thread
• Chainguard launched their toolchain for secure container images and contributed code for SpiceDB to adopt it
• We wrapped up our Authzed summer off-site with a trip to climb trees and snapped a group photo 📸: