Oso's Blog

Articles about authorization, and other news from Oso's engineering team

Implementing Fine-Grained Access Control in EMR Systems with Oso

How Oso provides EMR apps with the flexibility they need

January 13, 2025 — Sean Loiselle
Product

Local Authorization Enhancements: What’s New and Why It Matters

The updates to Oso’s Local Authorization in the V2 SDKs make it easier to build flexible authorization workflows.

November 27, 2024 — Jordan Killpack
Product

Fallback Is Now GA

Fallback ensures your app remains up and operational, even in the case of an unexpected Oso Cloud outage.

November 19, 2024 — Shaun Verch
Product

Webinar: How Google Handles Authorization at Scale

We just led a webinar on How Google handles Authorization at scale, watch to learn more about whether it is the best approach to secure your application permissions

November 18, 2024 — Hazal Mestci
Best Practices

Google Zanzibar Isn't Flexible

ReBAC - especially Google Zanzibar's implementation of it - is the wrong abstraction for authorization.

November 1, 2024 — Greg Sarjeant
Customers & Ecosystem

Announcing our new Python Client

Simplified fact management and powerful query builder API's - and much more!

October 21, 2024 — Hazal Mestci
Product

Announcing our new Go Client

Simplified fact management and powerful query builder API's - and much more!

October 16, 2024 — Hazal Mestci
Product

Is the TypeScript vs JavaScript war dumb or relevant?

A look into the pros and cons of using TypeScript versus JavaScript, plus some thoughts on why there is so much drama around them lately.

October 9, 2024 — Vijay Ramamurthy
Best Practices

Documentation So Good, You Can Take It to Prod

A new set of reference material to help users take Oso into prod

October 8, 2024 — Sean Loiselle
Best Practices

Oso Bear of the Month - Ashwyn Nair

Ashwyn Nair, Senior Software Engineer at Sensat, dives into how Oso has helped them create a safe space for their users to have full control over who can access their data.

August 29, 2024 —
Customers & Ecosystem

Announcing our new Node.js Client

Generate TypeScript types from your Polar policy - and much more!

July 18, 2024 — Vijay Ramamurthy
Product

Polar LSP: A Little Help with the Rules

Polar now has its own language server implementation, making it easier to write your authentication policies

July 8, 2024 — Jordan Killpack & Sean Loiselle
Product

View Billing Data in Oso Cloud

View your monthly average user report in the Oso Cloud UI.

June 11, 2024 —
Product

Oso Bear of the Month - Peadar Coyle

Peadar Coyle, Founder at AudioStack, dives into how they went from a homegrown authorization framework to using Oso and why it was critical to make this change for a GenAi company where protecting data is mission critical.

June 6, 2024 —
Customers & Ecosystem

Our Unusual Journey to ECS on EC2

Why we moved from Fargate to ECS on EC2, and how we preserved a zero-downtime architecture in the process.

May 29, 2024 — Shaun Verch
Internals

Negating Facts in your Oso Cloud Policy

Announcing a new feature in authorization policies: a limited form of negation (not syntax).

May 23, 2024 —
Product

Building a resilient and low-latency service using Kafka and SQLite

How Oso uses Kafka and an Event Sourcing Architecture to deploy a highly-available, low-latency managed authorization service.

May 17, 2024 — Mike Cen
Internals

Authorizing LLM responses by filtering vector embeddings

Adding access control to LLM chatbot responses with Oso Cloud and Postgresql

April 30, 2024 — Shaun Verch
Best Practices

A Logic Language for Distributed SQL Queries

A comprehensive look at the design of Polar, and how we enabled it to operate over distributed data.

April 25, 2024 — Sam Scott
Internals

Launching Local Authorization

Using local data to answer authorization questions with Oso Cloud

April 16, 2024 — Greg Sarjeant
Product

Introducing the Oso Drive Node.js Sample App

A sample app that demonstrates RBAC, ReBAC, and ABAC in Node.js with Oso Cloud

March 29, 2024 — Val Karpov
Product

What is a good use case for Oso?

This post provides specifics on when to use Oso, and when not to.

March 13, 2024 — Graham Neray
Best Practices

Oso Bear of the Month - Simon Robb

Simon Robb, Co-founder/CTO at Packsmith, covers the pain of custom-building authorization and the value of a centralized solution.

March 6, 2024 —
Customers & Ecosystem

The 10 Types of Authorization: The Families of RBAC, ReBAC and ABAC

The 10 types of authorization and how to identify them.

February 22, 2024 — Graham Neray
Best Practices

Best Practices for Authorization in Microservices

How do you reliably perform authorization in a backend built with microservices? There are lots of valid answers, but they tend to fall into three groups.

February 22, 2024 — Graham Neray
Best Practices

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