Topaz
Infrastructure
authorization service
SHOW HN2022
How HN took it
5 positive, 2 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 4 critical, out of 12 comments about the project. Thread score +0.08.
Idea: 4 for, 0 againstPerformance: 0 for, 2 againstDocs: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Good to see an open-source authorization building block based on a robust model
From 1 comment
Great to see an authz app building block based on a robust model as OSS. This is one of those things every app needs but so far most folks were building it in-house (as I can…
janczukt on HN
Exciting to see the code released to the community
From 1 comment
Great work Aserto team. Exciting to see this code released to the community.
apoland on HN
Objections
Adds latency since it runs as a separate service rather than a library
From 2 comments
Yet another golang gRPC authorization framework... That couple of ms response time for a decision could be fine,if you only call a couple of time per request,but its quickly adds…
renszarv on HNIt looks interesting, but I would rather like a package I can import and use locally than running an independent service, because of latency/performance.
lakomen on HN
Unclear technical details on the website and how it differs from OPA API clients
From 1 comment
Congrats on the launch! Combining policy with Zanzibar is super cool and it's great to see the folks in the OPA ecosystem moving in this direction. Most of the novelty of the…
jzelinskie on HN
Requests
Collaborate with SpiceDB or OpenFGA on the graph layer or directory contract
From 2 comments
Both REST and built-ins for OPA have been available for existing projects like OpenFGA[0] and SpiceDB[1]. In case of SpiceDB, the first built-in was actually available in June of…
jzelinskie on HNOur design approach with Aserto has been to have a single OPA-based decision engine integrated with a built-in directory. So Topaz carries this forward. We do have a gRPC…
ogazitt on HN
Offer an importable library option
From 2 comments
It looks interesting, but I would rather like a package I can import and use locally than running an independent service, because of latency/performance.
lakomen on HNBoth OpenFGA and SpiceDB are also implemented in Go, so they could also easily be included as a library. SpiceDB can even be compiled to WASM!
jzelinskie on HN
Questions
How does it differ from using an OPA API client with SpiceDB and OpenFGA
From 1 comment
Congrats on the launch! Combining policy with Zanzibar is super cool and it's great to see the folks in the OPA ecosystem moving in this direction. Most of the novelty of the…
jzelinskie on HN
Which Zanzibar properties is it inspired by
From 1 comment
Congrats on the launch! Combining policy with Zanzibar is super cool and it's great to see the folks in the OPA ecosystem moving in this direction. Most of the novelty of the…
jzelinskie on HN
Alternatives named
OpenFGA
From 2 comments
Love the growing number of OSS Zanzibar implementations, and congrats to the Aserto team for launching Topaz! Ory Keto's intro video @ SV IAM User Group [0] is worth a watch.…
rhamzeh on HNBoth REST and built-ins for OPA have been available for existing projects like OpenFGA[0] and SpiceDB[1]. In case of SpiceDB, the first built-in was actually available in June of…
jzelinskie on HN
SpiceDB
From 2 comments
Love the growing number of OSS Zanzibar implementations, and congrats to the Aserto team for launching Topaz! Ory Keto's intro video @ SV IAM User Group [0] is worth a watch.…
rhamzeh on HNBoth REST and built-ins for OPA have been available for existing projects like OpenFGA[0] and SpiceDB[1]. In case of SpiceDB, the first built-in was actually available in June of…
jzelinskie on HN
Ory Keto
From 1 comment
Ory [0] is also an OSS Zanzibar implementation. [0] https://ory.sh
robertlagrant on HN
Permify
From 1 comment
Love the growing number of OSS Zanzibar implementations, and congrats to the Aserto team for launching Topaz! Ory Keto's intro video @ SV IAM User Group [0] is worth a watch.…
rhamzeh on HN
Oso
From 1 comment
Hey, congrats on the launch! It’s great to see more activity in the authorization domain – a rising tide floats all boats. FWIW I totally see the benefit of having standards and…
gneray on HN