Jake Moshenko on Zanzibar: Google’s Consistent, Global Authorization System

Welcome to Papers We Love NYC's next remote meetup!

We're happy to host Jake Moshenko, CEO of Authzed, presenting on Zanzibar: Google’s Consistent, Global Authorization System (https://research.google/pubs/pub48190/)

The talk will be streamed for free on PWLNYC's twitch channel:
https://www.twitch.tv/paperswelove, and uploaded to the PWL YouTube channel afterward: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoj4eQh_dZR37lL78ymC6XA

Abstract

In this talk, Authzed’s CEO Jake Moshenko, will talk about what makes Zanzibar a paper worthy of dropping everything and forming a company around. Zanzibar is the singular global-scale authorization service that powers permissions and sharing across all Google properties, including Docs, YouTube, and Cloud IAM. The talk will cover how the paper lays out an engineer-friendly blueprint for building a highly scalable distributed system with flexible consistency guarantees. The talk will also cover details of some of the known existing implementations, and how and why they have deviated from the paper.

Bio

Jake Moshenko is an engineering leader that has been building infrastructure tools and services for over 15 years for large companies and startups alike. Having previously struggled to keep up with customer permissions demands on products such as CoreOS’s Quay and Tectonic, he was searching for a better way to do application permissions.

Details

The talk will be streamed for free on PWLNYC's twitch channel:
https://www.twitch.tv/paperswelove

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