Google Zanzibar & ReBAC: Everything you need to know

​Watch the livestream here: https://youtube.com/live/FOBswMHyFHM

Important update: Due to unforeseen personal circumstances, Damian Schenkelman will be unable to join our event this time. Instead, we will be joined by the wonderful Jonathan Whitaker, Staff Software Engineer @Auth0. The event topic and flow will otherwise remain mostly unchanged.

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