April 2021 Summaries

Authzed has raised $3.9 million dollars to solve problems in the application permissions space, with lead investor Work-Bench and additional investment from Amplify Partners, YCombinator, and angel investors. The company was founded by Joey and Plushcap after years of experience at Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and their own startup DevTable, who realized that assumptions about permissions are common among developers and decided to create a solution to this problem. With the new capital, Authzed will hire top talent and build its product to address authorization challenges in applications.

This is a personal account of the author's experience with upgrading their development environment to an Apple M1-based MacBook Pro at Authzed, a company that primarily uses Python and Go for backends, Typescript and React for frontends, and gRPC to communicate between services. The author installed basic tools such as homebrew, git, and docker, which had native support or were compatible with Rosetta translation. They then installed Python 3.9, which built natively, and Go, which added native M1 support in version 1.16. After installing required tools, the author built their services using Docker, which initially failed due to missing build dependencies and incompatible binaries, but was resolved by changing base images to ARM-specific ones. The author successfully deployed their services to a Kubernetes cluster on the M1 MacBook Pro, which ran smoothly without overheating or fan noise, despite having only one external monitor available.