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authorizer-tech / access-controller

access-controller

A highly scalable open-source implementation of an access-control engine inspired by Google Zanzibar-"Google’s Consistent, Global Authorization System"

2Distinct people
2Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
73GitHub stars
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What it is

A highly scalable open-source implementation of an access-control engine inspired by Google Zanzibar-"Google’s Consistent, Global Authorization System"

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Where it is used

No documented product use has been verified yet.

What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 6:01:08 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by week2 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2021-06-30 20:55:54 UTC to 2021-08-30 10:55:45 UTC. Weeks start Monday, UTC.

012021-06-28 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-07-05 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsJun 282021-07-05 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-07-12 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-07-12 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-07-19 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-07-19 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-07-26 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-07-26 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-08-02 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsJul 262021-08-02 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-08-09 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-08-09 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-08-16 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-08-16 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-08-23 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-08-23 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-08-30 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-08-30 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-09-06 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 commentsAug 30

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
Jun 282021-06-28 00:00:00 UTC2021-07-05 00:00:00 UTC101
Jul 52021-07-05 00:00:00 UTC2021-07-12 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 122021-07-12 00:00:00 UTC2021-07-19 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 192021-07-19 00:00:00 UTC2021-07-26 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 262021-07-26 00:00:00 UTC2021-08-02 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 22021-08-02 00:00:00 UTC2021-08-09 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 92021-08-09 00:00:00 UTC2021-08-16 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 162021-08-16 00:00:00 UTC2021-08-23 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 232021-08-23 00:00:00 UTC2021-08-30 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 302021-08-30 00:00:00 UTC2021-09-06 00:00:00 UTC110

What Hacker News says

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I've been working on a scalable open-source version of Google Zanzibar called the Authorizer platform. The implementation varies from that of Authzed by horizontally scaling the query space across more than one node. It uses consistent hashing with bounded loads to assign a specific node to serve the queries for the objects that it's responsible for. It also supports the namespace rewrite specification of the paper and the continuous namespace config monitoring. Much more progress is coming as well! The upcoming v0.2.0 release will have distributed caching to reduce latency on both the client and server side. Take a look, I'd love feedback and to build it into something valuable for the open-source community. https://github.com/authorizer-tech/access-controller https://authorizer-tech.github.io/
In AuthZ: Scalable permissions system

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