Google Zanzibar Through Our Eyes

Hey HN! I&#x27;m one of folks that helped launch this project.<p>You can go directly to the annotated paper here[0]. It&#x27;s got all kinds of goodies like the ability to direct link from anywhere and generate OpenGraph previews (e.g. [1]).<p>Coolest of all, it&#x27;s entirely open source[2] built on NextJS.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;zanzibar.tech" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;zanzibar.tech</a><p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;zanzibar.tech&#x2F;2R50fs-R_n:1i:3u" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;zanzibar.tech&#x2F;2R50fs-R_n:1i:3u</a><p>[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;authzed&#x2F;zanzibar-annotated" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;authzed&#x2F;zanzibar-annotated</a>

Super interesting! It&#x27;s interesting to think about what Zanzibar ultimately is: an efficient way to store and traverse graphs to determine an outcome, in this case typically authorization, but ever since I learned of this I keep seeing more and more problems that could be solved this way.<p>Also I can&#x27;t decide whether this paper is more interesting or the tech they built to annotate it, I keep thinking of papers I&#x27;d want to do this with now.

I was just skimming over real quick but don’t have to either to read the whole thing. One thing that stood out, is a group can hold another group. So I guess if you had a role like tech support, web development, financial, etc you could make a CEO role that includes the permissions within those other roles? If I am reading that right, never thought about that though. Kinda neat as role reusability.

I love the annotation interface, did you do that all yourself or use a tool? Ty!

Your notes immediately crystalized some of the concepts I was still fuzzy on before reading. Awesome!<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;authzed&#x2F;zanzibar-annotated" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;authzed&#x2F;zanzibar-annotated</a> is very slick too!<p>Is there any way to attribute an annotation to a set of authors (sans git history)?

Great work! Keep up the high productivity. Miss playing ping pong in New York together :)