I'm really excited about this: building a scalable Access Control is a foundational challenge of cloud-scale systems, and I'm happy to see a new contender.
Is this like an "Open-Source Core" model, where the basic core platform is open-source but all the extra features to make it usable (to put it bluntly) in a given org are what you're selling?
(in my org it takes ~2s to lookup group membership (& thus permission) of a user on a cache miss, which is just shocking. I'd love it if we migrated to SpiceDB, but of course at our scale that won't happen anytime soon)
Disclaimer: We're a startup so things are obviously subject to change!
Right now, the business model is around running a single SpiceDB service globally so that you as a user don't have to figure out how to deploy and manage the service at scale.
This service is especially tricky to run because of the need for low latency, high availability, and a single globally replicated service. For an individual company to run HA clusters all over the world would be cost prohibitive, but when all Authzed.com customers share the cost it becomes more reasonable.
That's pretty clear -- and best wishes for a successful outcome! However, given the history of other companies, the fundamental follow-up question would be:
What are your plans for responding to large companies/cloud providers/... offering the same service based on your software?
I'm really excited about this: building a scalable Access Control is a foundational challenge of cloud-scale systems, and I'm happy to see a new contender.
Is this like an "Open-Source Core" model, where the basic core platform is open-source but all the extra features to make it usable (to put it bluntly) in a given org are what you're selling?
(in my org it takes ~2s to lookup group membership (& thus permission) of a user on a cache miss, which is just shocking. I'd love it if we migrated to SpiceDB, but of course at our scale that won't happen anytime soon)