Sanjay Nagaraj started his journey in India, where he was born and raised. He earliest influences started at home, as his father taught him honesty and integrity and his mother heavily influenced his growth as an individual. Though he spends most of his time in tech, anytime outside of work is dedicated to time with family, where he gets to see the world through his wife and kids - along with fueling his passion for singing and following his favorite sports team.For Sanjay, one thing that was clear to him was that application builders exposing APIs, you are responsible for making sure those API's are secure. Prior to his current venture, he and his co-founder built AppDynamics, and they saw the growth of API's first hand. As such, businesses were looking for products to help understand API's and protect them - in real time.This is the creation story of Traceable.SponsorsPermitCacheFlyClearQueryKiteworksLinkshttps://traceable.ai/https://www.linkedin.com/in/sanjaynagaraj/Our Sponsors:* Check out Kinsta: https://kinsta.com* Check out Red Hat: https://www.redhat.com* Check out Vanta: https://vanta.com/CODESTORYSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/code-story/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
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So I've been working on my authorization service, and it's totally sweet. It's only taken me six months to build it. Just six months. I started implementing some basic RBAC library, but that wasn't enough, obviously. So I designed relationship-based, fine-grained authorization for the highest security possible.
And then, to make it super fast, I used a GPU tower, running in my mom's basement, of course, connected via optic cable to a bare metal server at my local esports lounge. Permissions, restrictions, and admin. Nailed it.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Whatever you did sounds cool, but there's also another option. Oh, really? Yeah, with Permit.io. Permit is the full-stack authorization platform created so you never have to build permissions again. Build and manage permissions for any application with policy as code, APIs, developer-friendly SDKs, and user-facing UI.
Permit is an end-to-end authorization platform built on top of open source policy engines. It's high performing, gets decisions in less than 10 milliseconds, and uses a hybrid approach where config is in the cloud, but data and decisions are made locally. Not only is it intuitive, it lets you implement fully functional authorization in five minutes, not six months, and in the code base you prefer.
Check out the link in the show notes or go to permit.io to learn more. That's P-E-R-M-I-T dot I-O. Sign up for permit and stop rebuilding off.
One thing that we at Traceable look at is more in the terms of what we like to call it as the minimum sellable product rather than something as a viable product. The reason why we look at that is at the end of the day, when you're building a business, you're looking to sell that product to customers so that they're actually paying money for it because they're deriving value from it.
Viable doesn't always mean it's fully sellable as well. Is this a product that's going to be a better mousetrap, as in an upgrade to something that exists, or is it a brand new market? My name is Sanjay Nagaraj, co-founder and CTO of Traceable.
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