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Read authorization attributes from the database, not a copy

calendar_today September 25, 2026 person Alex Olivier domain cerbos

Authorization attributes like plan tier, team and clearance already live in a database. How Cerbos Synapse fetches them at decision time with a SQL data source and a Starlark proxy extension, how to set cache TTL per attribute, and how checks fail closed when the database is unreachable.

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