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topaz

Cloud-native authorization for modern applications and APIs

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Cloud-native authorization for modern applications and APIs

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Observed mentions: 2022-10-24 15:01:44 UTC to 2024-03-13 18:54:35 UTC.

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ogazitt·Nov 6, 2023Submission

Show HN: Topaz 0.30 – OSS authz service combining the best of OPA and Zanzibar

Hey folks! As Topaz turns a year old, we just released a big update, including support for a new authorization schema language, a built-in visual console, REST APIs for the ReBAC directory, a full test harness, and many other improvements. Would love to get your feedback! Check out the blog post [0] for the complete details (including some cool screenshots), or clone / fork the repo here [1]. Many thanks! [0] https://www.aserto.com/blog/announcing-topaz-030 [1] https://github.com/aserto-dev/topaz
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Two years ago, we founded Aserto to simplify authorization for developers. Authorization is critical and hard to get right, yet isn't a source of differentiation for most applications. Google [1], Airbnb [2], Netflix [3], Carta [4], Intuit [5], and others have written about their authorization systems. It's clear that these are all significant undertakings by sizable teams. Most engineering organizations don't want to spend their precious cycles reinventing this wheel. Over the last two years, we've collected a set of best practices that are common across these projects. We call these the Principles of Authorization [6]. Our goal has been to democratize these principles into an authorization service, and save you time and effort. Topaz [7] is an open source authorization system you can use to start building robust authorization in minutes
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. It provides fine-grained, real-time, policy-based access control for modern cloud applications. You can deploy it as a sidecar or a microservice in your cloud, ensuring low latency to your application. Topaz combines the best ideas from two cloud-native authorization ecosystems: OPA and Zanzibar. Read our blog post [8] for more on why we built Topaz. Happy hacking! [1] https://research.google/pubs/pub48190/ [2] https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/himeji-a-scalable-cent... [3] https://www.infoq.com/presentations/authorization-scalabilit... [4] https://medium.com/building-carta/authz-cartas-highly-scalab... [5] https://medium.com/intuit-engineering/authz-intuits-unified-... [6] https://www.topaz.sh/docs/intro#principles [7] https://github.com/aserto-dev/topaz [8] https://www.aserto.com/blog/topaz-oss-cloud-native-authoriza...
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