Andres Aguiar joins us to discuss OpenFGA, an open source project for managing fine-grained authorization. Andres covers the challenges in implementing authorization and the importance of using precise access controls to enhance security. He outlines the project's journey, use cases, and how it can be integrated into different software environments. The conversation highlights the community's contributions, the roadmap for OpenFGA, and the potential of AI in improving security through centralized logging and anomaly detection. 00:13 Meet Andres and OpenFGA01:48 Project Maturity and Community02:55 Adoption and Use Cases04:43 Contributions and Integrations05:59 Understanding Relationship-Based Access Control16:13 Future Roadmap and AI Potential Guest: Andres Aguiar has spent his 20+ year career building tools for developers, wearing different hats. He’s been working on the identity space for the last 6 years, and is currently the Product Manager for OpenFGA.