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You are right if it’s a technical driving thing. But most are not that case.

CPU is much cheaper for scaling a business.


true serverless


Why "true"? I don't have to worry about servers and infrastructure with Lambdas either.



I am continuing to be amazed at how much over engineering Airbnb does for ostensibly a cleaner couch surfing broker. Like they don't actually do much even for a travel site, they have so much investment and could have easily disrupted so many different travel related Fields instead they keep over engineering software. Not sure how to feel about it (since we do kinda benefit from their busywork)


They have similar incentives to Uber where their main goal is to get engineers to work for them by being interesting, and it doesn't actually have to be profitable. I think Uber also writes blog posts about architecture to trick competitors into thinking it can't be done by sharding each city into one box under someone's desk.


Casbin is another that’s pretty interesting I’ve been evaluating alongside Ory’s

https://casbin.org/


Is it my impression or nowadays the emerging technology in this sense is OPA (Open Policy Agent)?

It looks like a flexible system to build cross-language and cross-framework authorization systems.


I use OPA with terraform and kubernetes, but I’m looking for something for application ACLs, where I as a resource owner can assign permissions to arbitrary subjects for a resource.

Does OPA support that? If so that would be very very cool.


Certainly! Application and microservice authorization is probably one of the more common use cases for OPA, and there's definitely benefits in having a unified policy engine in an organization or company.


I have only found RBAC and ABAC docs and tutorials for OPA, do you happen to know of a good source of docs for ACLs like, User A gives User B edit rights on Resource C?

Update: I swear I’ve looked through the docs 20 times and I’ve never seen this use case, but of course after writing this comment I go back and immediately find what may work :-)

https://www.openpolicyagent.org/docs/latest/comparison-to-ot...


I think Ory Keto would be a better choice because it's easier to manage individual resources on an ad-hoc basis.


that's a nice catch


HTTPS anywhere by now, how ISP doing hijack, I didn’t see anything that can stop privacy leak except source ip.


Even if you run DNS over an encrypted line (e.g. DoH), the ISP can see which IPs you're talking to, which in many cases translates back rather cleanly into which services you're using (which makes for a rather interesting profile already if you take into account time patterns and bandwidth usage).


Might be reinventing the wheel ;D


The problem is have to estimate anything


It worked?


Yes- very, very well for us. YMMV, of course. For reference- this was in a B2B SaaS space targeting SMB. Once we got the Enterprises' attention, we added a 0 for them.


can we do it by nocss ;D


It’s really stop me to make a extension business.


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