Google Zanzibar & ReBAC: Everything you need to know

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​​Join Dr. Rohit Khare, Ex. Product Manager & Software Architect @Google and Jonathan Whitaker, Staff Software Engineer @Auth0 (OKTA), as we dive into Google Zanzibar - Google’s unique ReBAC solution for access control. Discover its creation process, popularity among developers, challenges, and open-source implementations.
We'll discuss:
​- An intro to ReBAC and leveraging relationships for access control
​- How Google solved its authorization with ReBAC
​- Designing and productizing Google Zanzibar
​- Creating a practical framework/library from an abstract paper
​- The popularity of Zanzibar outside of Google
​- The concept of no-code open source
​- Working in a research group that affects thousands of developers and millions of users
​- The pros and cons of using a centralized graph
​- Data duplication and inconsistency
​- Open research as a pathway for open-source projects
​- Q&A

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Some more great resources:
Whait is ReBAC - www.permit.io/blog/what-is-rebac
Moving RBAC to ReBAC -www.permit.io/blog/from-rbac-to-rebac-and-abac-with-nextjs-and-permitio
And RBAC vs. ABAC vs. ReBAC - www.permit.io/blog/rbac-vs-abac-vs-rebac

[@raiyansarker]

what you guys think about cerbos?

[@permitio]

There are several tools for building authorization out there, and they are all preferable to building something yourself from scratch. If you want to get into what the exact differences between those tools are, we'd love to chat more about it in our community ❤

[@raiyansarker]

@@permitio I would love to understand the differences!

[@permitio]

@@raiyansarker More than welcome to reach out to us here: bit.ly/permit-slack