oso with Graham Neray

16/12/2020 28 min

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Episode Synopsis

Eric Anderson (@ericmander) interviews Graham Neray (@grahamneray) about oso, the open-source policy engine for authorization. oso was originally born from a desire to make infrastructure and security easier for developers, which is why Graham and his company describe themselves as being in the “friction-removal business.” Listen to today’s episode to learn how the team at oso are working to put security in the hands of developers. 
In this episode we discuss:

Developers building RBAC (role-based access control) systems over and over again
Why open-source is the best way to handle authorization logic
The history behind oso’s core policy language, Polar
How someone beat Graham to the punch submitting oso to a Python newsletter
Comparing oso and OPA (Open Policy Agent)

Links:

oso
Stripe
Trulioo
MongoDB
Auth0
Show HN
OPA
Polar Adventure

People mentioned:

Sam Scott (@samososos)
Alex Plotnick (Github: @plotnick)
Stephen Olsen (@olsenator4)

Other episodes:

Presto on Contributor
OPA on Contributor