SpiceDB is an open source, Google Zanzibar-inspired, database system for creating and managing security-critical application permissions.

SpiceDB

For those of you using AuthZed's managed SpiceDB service in production, how are you standing up your staging environments? Is it worth paying for a second SpiceDB instance just for staging? Do you self host the OSS version or maybe just piggyback off the prod instance?

i work for authzed, so grain of salt and all that, but we'd recommend against piggybacking off of the prod instance for noisy neighbor reasons

we have folks who have paid staging instances and we have folks who are running staging instances themselves

we're also working on ways to provide smaller/cheaper clusters for dev/staging purposes, but that's probably still a ways off