August 2022 Summaries

The newly improved Authzed Playground experience utilizes WebAssembly (WASM) technology, allowing for faster and more efficient processing of authorization operations. The playground's development environment is now powered by SpiceDB, an open-source permissions database inspired by Google's Zanzibar, providing a flexible configuration system. To achieve this, the developers created a JavaScript interface to talk to SpiceDB from within a browser, cached aggressively, and loaded the compiled Go binary into the JavaScript runtime using the wasm_exec.js library. This integration enables near-instant responses from SpiceDB, reducing latency by 90% compared to previous grpc-web requests. The use of WASM also allows for sharing non-JavaScript implementations between clients and servers, facilitating a seamless experience in the playground.

Authzed has joined the Cloud Native Computing Foundation and Linux Foundation, marking a significant milestone for their cloud-native projects, including SpiceDB, which was recently open-sourced following best practices aligned with the CNCF Code of Conduct. The Authzed team has been actively contributing to various cloud-native projects, such as Kubernetes, etcd, and Helm, since its inception in 2020. With this new affiliation, Authzed aims to bolster the community and make secure system-building accessible to everyone, fostering collaboration among like-minded individuals through their GitHub repository and Discord channel.