| Interesting to see another project open sourced around Google Zanzibar. On a timeline for context: - Ory came out first with Ory Keto ( https://github.com/ory/keto ) which is trying to be a close adaptation of the paper. Initially, many concepts were missing but they are making a lot of progress with the DSL and it interfaces with the rest of Ory (OAuth2, User Mangement) - Authzed came out as a SaaS only, open sorucing the code base later on at https://github.com/authzed/spicedb - Auth0 has been playing around with Zanzibar concepts in various forms and published a beta service at https://dashboard.fga.dev - apparently now also open source parts of it similar to what Authzed did: https://github.com/openfga - Permify - who on a side note spammed me quite a lot with outreach because I was active in these communities - joins as well https://github.com/Permify/permify It's exciting to see so much movement, yet also sad that so many companies are brewing their own beer instead of working collaborative on the more succesful projects. Feels like we'll just end up with one or two successful projects (looking at Ory / Auth0 here) with the rest perishing. I'm wondering if there truly is a business model for just this permission system as a saas service (looks like this is what everyone is going with). Here I'm giving Auth0 probably the biggest plus as they have an established identity service. Then again, Okta (parent of Auth0) and Auth0 themselves are not particularly known for good business practices that we usually expect from developer tooling. What's refreshing though with Permify is that they are trying a bit of a different approach to Zanzibar! |
Sorry for the outreach spam, just were trying to get feedback. Sometimes me and my co-founders reach out same person :) I hope we didn't bothered you a lot.
Thanks for the kind words, hopefully we believe there are a lot more space for players in the space. I guess we should wait and see.
About the approach thanks for the kind words :) We're trying to focus on 2 main issues with Permify. 1. Modeling of authorization: Make it dead simple so everyone can build future-proof system without the effort. 2. Data Orchestration: Make it easy to move and sync authorization data, especially for. distributed systems. So you don't have to.
We love to chat about these topics so would love to connect and chat :)