Episode 60 - Your Applications NEED Permissions with Authzed's Jimmy Zelinskie

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Jimmy's BIO:

Jimmy has been both a product manager and critical engineer on various container and orchestration projects.

His passion for building products sees light even in his spare time as he contributes to open source projects and standards.

He is a co-founder of Authzed, Authzed is an API service for developers to build permissions into their applications without the usual pitfalls and distractions.

Timeline/Topic

00:00 - Sponsor - Stormforge - stormforge.io/popcast

01:00 - Opener

01:08 - Intro to Jimmy Zelinske

01:24 - Jimmy's Journey

04:10 - Bittorrent in his beginnings.

11:36 - The CoreOS Story.

15:10 - Quay - What is it and its origins?

16:28 - Joey and Jake and how Jimmy is the "tie breaker"

21:08 - CoreOS and Product Management

23:30 - Docker and Kubernetes as the early choices for Kubernetes/CoreOS

29:56 - Operators and the Operator Framework

37:00 - Authzed. Centralized Authentication, Jimmy explains why you need it.

49:46 - What work is Jimmy most proud of?

Episode Links

https://jzelinskie.com/posts/youre-not-running-vanilla-kubernetes/

https://authzed.com - Find out more about Authzed

https://play.authzed.com/ns/example/document (Play with Authzed)

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