May 2025 Summaries

The AuthZed team has announced the Tech Preview of their Cloud API, which provides a RESTful JSON API for managing infrastructure provisioned on AuthZed Dedicated Cloud. The API allows users to list available permissions systems and manage configuration for restricting access to SpiceDB within those systems. To access the API, users must reach out to their account team and request credentials, then use these credentials to automate AuthZed Cloud infrastructure in any way they like. The API requires specifying a version as a header to accommodate future changes, and the team is eager to see integrations built with API-level access to their cloud platform.

AuthZed is a company that aims to fix broken access control systems by building an infrastructure software called SpiceDB, which was open-sourced in late 2021. The company's first commercial offering, AuthZed Dedicated Cloud, launched in early 2022 and provides a dedicated cloud platform for provisioning SpiceDB deployments similar to major cloud providers. Dedicated Clouds are a middle ground between Public and Private Clouds, offering varying levels of isolation and dedicated resources while not fully isolating end users. AuthZed has recognized the need for a self-service product with shared control plane features, which is under active development as AuthZed Cloud, expected to launch later this year, sharing the same codebase as Dedicated Cloud.

ARM (Advanced Micro Devices) has become a strategic advantage for AuthZed, a company providing authorization infrastructure, in meeting the challenges of modern cloud-native development environments. By adopting ARM-based laptops with customizable configurations and ample RAM, AuthZed has achieved significant productivity gains, cost savings, and performance improvements. The company's transition to ARM has enabled it to balance performance, cost, and efficiency across development environments and production deployments, while also benefiting from the latest developments in multi-architecture support for CI/CD platforms and cloud infrastructure. With the advantages of ARM delivering consistent benefits throughout their engineering pipeline, AuthZed is now able to innovate and compete effectively, providing a seamless experience that benefits both their team and customers.

Zed is a command line interface (CLI) tool that allows users to interact with their SpiceDB cluster, enabling features such as switching between clusters, writing and reading schemas, relationships, and checking permissions. The tool can be launched as a standalone binary or as a Docker container. Recent improvements in version 0.30.2 include the addition of support for compiling and validating composable schemas, automatic retries, a new `zed backup` command, and publishing to Chocolatey for Windows users. Future updates will add support for a new test syntax in schema files, allowing users to validate their schema and relationships. The development team is actively improving zed and encourages users to report issues or suggest new features through the GitHub repository.