Engineering
All articles tagged Engineering.
Cerbos Hub’s Collaborative IDE: Craft access control policies in your browser in real-time
This article introduces the in-browser IDE Playground, available to Cerbos Hub users. The playground is designed to streamline access control management, providing a central collaborative environment for developer, product, or security teams to work on authorization policies together.
The Secret Ingredients: protobufs and gRPC
Find out how Cerbos leverages protobuf and gRPC for defining all core features and interfaces.
GitHub’s inconsistent access control
GitHub’s repository settings page suffers from a frustrating anti-pattern where policies are not enforced consistently - there’s a better way to keep access control rules consistent between layers and decouple policies from code.
Filtering data using authorization logic
With the latest release of Cerbos, we introduced a new experimental query planner API to help address this problem efficiently in a language-agnostic way. This article describes how we designed and developed that API.
Keeping documentation in sync with source code
In this article, Cerbos engineer Oğuzhan Durgun (@oguzhand95) describes how Cerbos configuration documentation is automatically kept in sync with the Go source code.Cerbos is a highly customizable appli...