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by gneray 1438 days ago
Disclosure: I'm the founder of Oso (osohq.com).

It's good to see more activity in this domain. One thing I've noticed over the last several years has been: beyond the fact that we haven't had good options for authorization tools, the world doesn't have enough mental models and good language for describing the authorization _problem_. It's mostly RBAC and ABAC. That is...limited!

As more people work on this problem, I hope we'll continue to build out the collective knowledgebase in addition to having tools that supercharge us. To get the ball rolling, we've written a number of articles, e.g.,

- What is Google Zanzibar (https://www.osohq.com/learn/google-zanzibar)

- Authorization Academy, a series of technical guides on building authorization into an application (https://www.osohq.com/academy)

- Why Authorization is Hard (https://www.osohq.com/post/why-authorization-is-hard)

- Best Practices for Authorization Microservices (https://www.osohq.com/post/microservices-authorization-patte...)

- Authorization Patterns in GraphQL (https://www.osohq.com/post/graphql-authorization)

Onward :)