Another Meeting?

Jeff Read bitwize at gmail.com
Tue Oct 20 10:21:28 UTC 2020


My talk, such as it is, will be on Joey, a web-service testing language I
somehow convinced my employer to let me open-source.

On Tue, Oct 20, 2020, 6:19 AM Jeff Read <bitwize at gmail.com> wrote:

> Have we decided on a way to meet?
>
> On Mon, Oct 12, 2020, 9:35 PM Alex Plotnick <shrike at netaxs.com> wrote:
>
>> At Mon, 12 Oct 2020 11:20:33 -0600, Jonathan Godbout said:
>>
>> > How does Tuesday the 20th at 7 sound?
>>
>> Works for me.
>>
>> > Sounds like I'll do a lightning talk, Jeff and Alex can decide on their
>> > chosen talks, please send me abstracts so I can add it to the website!.
>>
>> Sounds great. My title will be "The Polar Policy Language",
>> and here's a more formal abstract:
>>
>> In this talk, I'll discuss the design and implementation of Polar,
>> a declarative policy language aimed at solving complex authorization
>> problems. A Polar interpreter forms the core of oso, an open source
>> authorization engine that you can embed in your application. Polar
>> rules can access application instances and specialize on (multiple)
>> application-defined classes, which allows policies to be cleanly
>> separated from application code but still have direct access to the
>> data needed to make authorization decisions. Applications in a variety
>> of languages (currently Python, Ruby, Java, JavaScript, and Rust)
>> are supported by a shared core, written in Rust, together with
>> a host-language library that communicates with the core over an
>> event-based FFI.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>         -- Alex
>>
>>
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