Mark Pundsack

My first home-built computer required you to program in machine code using dip switches. Definitely not my favorite language.

My new favorite programming language is Markdown.

What's the German word for the work you get done in between waiting for ChatGPT to respond?

Achievement unlocked: I got Claude Code to swear (without being manipulated into doing so).

Do AI agents get tired of being told they're hallucinating? I mean, deep down they already know this, and we're really just nagging them.

Super excited for this quick demo of using AI to understand and create complex policies for app authorization. youtube.com/watch?v=-l1vaQ… @styrainc

@villi @Category_VC Wow Villi, that’s awesome! Excited to see what you do with it. To everyone else, if you haven’t had a chance to work with Villi, I highly recommend it. He’s one of the best VCs I’ve worked with.

Today I am thrilled to announce @Category_VC, an early stage venture firm conceived to provide unparalleled strategic and technical support to founders building enterprise software startups. I am also excited to announce Category Ventures I, our $160 million debut fund dedicated to investing in the most ambitious founders. Our mission is to support founders building category defining companies in AI, infrastructure, developer tools, and applications. Category will have broad flexibility to lead pre-seed and seed rounds with investments of $1.5 - $5M. Category was created with the belief that enterprise founders can be better served by their venture investors. We aspire to build a firm that has strong technical expertise, extensive operating experience, and deep founder empathy. My vision for Category is to be an invaluable partner to founders, capable of providing architectural and technical direction, go-to-market support, as well as strategic guidance. During my career as an investor, I have seen the spectrum of the human spirit — greatness, failure, hardship, happiness, heartbreak, and tears of joy. The founder journey is lonely, hard, and unpredictable. I would like Category to be the best partner to founders, a firm built on a strong foundation of core values — authenticity, kindness, teamwork, and intensity. I am eager to build the Category team and partner with amazing founders creating their own category. Let’s go!

#KubeCon Paris is next week! Catch Styra at the #OPA kiosk in the Project Pavilion. Don't miss our talks: 📅 Tue: "Fine-Grained Access Control for Backstage with OPA" (sched.co/1YFhV) 📅 Thu: "OPA Intro & Deep Dive" (sched.co/1Yhhn)

At Styra, we love remote! And, one of the most important elements to being an effective and successful all-remote team is to regularly spend time together in person. Last week, we gathered from all over the globe in Playa del Carmen for the 2024 Styra Summit.

"Over 90% of technical decision makers say policy as code is a vital, strategic priority to replace homegrown authorization" Read an analysis of the Policy as Code Report from our Director of Product Management, Christopher Hendrix here: devopsdigest.com/policy-as-code…

As 2023 draws to a close, our own @anderseknert looks back at another eventful year in the OPA community. A year of exciting new features, events and OPA-related projects. Read all about it in the OPA blog! blog.openpolicyagent.org/open-policy-ag…

Using general-purpose languages for authorization can lead to complex code, misunderstandings & vulnerable code. @nevumx from @GustoHQ makes a case for logic programming by showing how it can be used to build more maintainable & secure #authz logic. engineering.gusto.com/why-logic-prog…

Got a requirement for Relationship-based Access Control? Or maybe interested in #Neo4j for permissions data? Checkout our new '#ReBAC to the Future' post! styra.com/blog/rebac-to-…

Architecting for security and compliance at scale is a daunting task. #PolicyAsCode is an essential part of any modern solution to this challenge. It’s 2023 & policy as code is everywhere in enterprises. Check out The 2023 State of #PolicyAsCode Report. styra.com/resources/repo…

Enterprise OPA can now be used as source code! Get all of the flexibility of using Open Policy Agent, with all of the performance and integration benefits of Enterprise OPA. styra.com/press/styra-an…

Enterprise OPA is really fast - but don’t just take our word for it. We’ve been working with @MiroHQ on a real-time authorization challenge and their engineering team came to the same conclusion: it's fast! Read all about it here: medium.com/miro-engineeri…

Are you struggling to express complex enterprise permissions or meet challenging authorization performance targets at scale? Our summary of two enterprise use cases from engineering teams at Miro and Reddit might provide some valuable pointers. styra.com/blog/opa-in-pr…

Hey! We're running a short survey to learn how people are using Decision Logging with OPA. If you have a couple minutes, please fill it out. It'll help make OPA even better! forms.gle/bRgMo9sLDNu6hy…

@marccampbell I love this mechanism. Used it a lot with Heroku’s `hk` cli.

When paired with a good `my-app login` flow, tokens are never manually copied around, which seems like a user-friendly experience. What's the downside here?

Is it helpful for a developer tool CLI to have an "api" subcommand that uses the CLI's auth mechanism and headers to make it easier to call new or not-implemented methods? `my-app api get /v1/users` `my-app api post /v1/something -b "{'field': 0}"`

How does our enterprise version of OPA perform head-to-head with standard OPA? Running a large (400MB) RBAC bundle, the results are pretty clear: Styra Load uses just 275.3MB of memory, compared with 3GB for OPA. Take a spin with our free trial now! bit.ly/40LdiCM