Authzed has released several updates in August, including live metrics on every permission system and guided tours for the dashboard and playground. The company has also made progress on its distributed systems that scale Authzed planet-wide. New team members have joined, including Evan Cordell, who is returning to his authorization roots after working at CoreOS. The company's philosophy on being a Cloud-Native SaaS was written about by Jimmy, while the playground has been updated with features such as guided tours and the ability to deploy straight to production when logged in. Authzed has also open-sourced its prom-authzed-proxy and posted job listings for ambitious SREs. Additionally, the company has shared news from around the tech industry, including updates on Facebook's metaverse, a new performance increase in Go 1.17, and reminders to consume responsibly when shopping around the CNCF landscape.