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We’re excited to work with Neo Financial to provide SpiceDB as their modern authorization solution. Neo Financial can continue building innovative financial products and services designed to help people maximize the value of their money while securely enabling collaborative features and protecting user data.

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Welcome to AuthZed Office Hours In today's episode we're going to try and deploy SpiceDB to Amazon ECS. Some features such as horizontal dispatch won't work out of the box, but we're gonna deploy it anyway! SpiceDB is the flexible, fast, 
& secure open source permissions system, based on Google Zanzibar: https://lnkd.in/ez7wBHSc Don't forget to subscribe to the channel for regular how-to videos and livestreams.

A question about a simple SpiceDB schema leads to some nuanced usage tips: https://lnkd.in/gvFjVFvb The AuthZed Discord community is your hub for queries, discussions, and SpiceDB knowledge sharing. Each week, we’ll share a user’s question and a reply from our team.

Running low-latency workloads on Kubernetes is already a complex challenge, but @Jimmy from AuthZed took it to the next level by breaking down the best practices for GC (garbage-collected) languages and giving us a behind-the-scenes look at SpiceDB! Takeaways: SpiceDB isn’t just your run-of-the-mill database—it’s a blazing fast, globally distributed, open-source system designed for fine-grained permissions. If you’ve ever tried to run ACLs or RBAC with low latency at scale, you know the struggle. Pro tips for GC languages from the talk: Object Pooling: Keep those allocations in check! For high-performance systems, every millisecond counts. Reusing objects in memory can help cut down on costly GC pauses. Manual Memory Management: Yes, GC is automatic, but sometimes it's better to take control. Jimmy recommends allocating memory in bulk where possible to avoid frequent GC. Tuning GC: GC tuning isn’t one-size-fits-all. It’s all about finding that sweet spot for your workload. Tune it too aggressively and you'll underutilize resources; too lenient, and latency spikes will haunt you. Ensuring sub-millisecond P95 latencies while handling thousands of permission checks. Optimizing resource usage, leveraging Kubernetes auto-scaling mechanisms to keep latency low and uptime high. insight into how SpiceDB tackles high-concurrency workloads without breaking a sweat was eye-opening. It’s not just about being fast; it’s about staying fast even when your system is on fire. #p99conf ScyllaDB #performance

What's your authorization Hot Take? The AuthZed team shared some of theirs and we want to see yours in the comments!

AuthZed CPO Jimmy Zelinskie gave a talk at the Cloud Native Foundation #gRPConf to explain why you should consider a gRPC-first database. Watch now: https://lnkd.in/gthgxeup

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Working with SpiceDB? Check out the Awesome SpiceDB list of official and third-party projects built by the community: https://lnkd.in/gpYz2FCU

This week’s SpiceDB Discord Highlights: SpiceDB stores edges, not nodes: https://lnkd.in/gZpNjJTq Discovering your favorite playground functionality in VSCode: https://lnkd.in/gN5u-aUB Check it out: https://lnkd.in/gte6faMp The AuthZed Discord community is your hub for queries, discussions, and SpiceDB knowledge sharing. Each week, we’ll share a user’s question and a reply from our team.