Show HN: Permify – Open-source authorization service based on Google Zanzibar

Re:Show HN: Permify – Open-source authorization service base... by jzelinskie on Thursday July 14, 2022 @11:33AM (#32097364)

Welcome! Glad to see more folks joining the open source FGA/Zanzibar space! Making synchronization first-class is a great area to explore. It'd be nice to connect and chat about all things Zanzibar, not just data syncing!

The Authzed team[0] built Postgres syncing with the SpiceDB Postgres Connector[1] to explore syncing, but we never got it into a place that the community could agree upon. Users in the SpiceDB community are using technologies like CDC external to SpiceDB successfully, but there are many foot-guns to syncing because it can violate data consistency. Is there documentation on how Permify handles consistency (e.g. the Zookies/The New Enemy Problem from the Zanzibar paper)?

[0]: https://github.com/authzed/spicedb

[1]: https://github.com/authzed/connector-postgresql

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Re:Show HN: Permify – Open-source authorization service base... by mtolga on Thursday July 14, 2022 @12:03PM (#32097803)

Hey Jimmy,

I'm Tolga one of the co-founders of Permify. Lovely to be in the space. Thanks for the kind words we're always open to chat as well.

Right there things we have to improve such as data consistency as you mentioned. We'll be following Zookie model. And we will be adding message queue, and planning to add a message broker soon.

You can check this article for more: https://www.permify.co/post/why-decouple-authorizations

Would love to discuss further more.

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