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Date Published
Author
Daniel Bass
Word count
1092
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

Permit.io's Launch Week Day 2 highlights the introduction of innovative features aimed at advancing authorization management for developers. Key features include Couchbase Data Filtering, which integrates middleware to streamline permissions at the database layer, allowing developers to filter queries based on user roles and policies directly. Additionally, the Partial Evaluation feature enables SQL queries to be pre-filtered by user permissions, reducing post-query logic and simplifying application code. The extension of RBAC for CASL enhances front-end authorization by allowing dynamic, user-specific permission checks for UI elements. Finally, the integration of SQLite with Open Policy Agent (OPA) overcomes previous data limitations, enabling scalable policy decisions by allowing Permit’s Policy Decision Point (PDP) to handle larger datasets. These updates collectively aim to improve decision-making processes in application development, from database queries to front-end interactions, ensuring efficient and scalable permission enforcement.