How we rewrote OpenFGA in pure Postgres
TL;DR: We rewrote parts of OpenFGA in pure Postgres to make it easier to keep our authorization system up-to-date with our main database. Everything is available on GitHub.In software engineering, ‘auth’ is a bit of a loaded term. It’s generally used to describe the process of both authenticating users (determining who a user is) and authorizing users (determining what they’re allowed to do).Authentication (often referred to as ‘authn’) is pretty much a solved problem when you’re writing a user-...
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