The author shares their learning journey of SpiceDB as a Developer Advocate at AuthZed.Starting with the basics, they read the Google Zanzibar paper and watched a presentation to understand how SpiceDB works.Schema designis central to SpiceDB and the author watched a video to learn how to model objects and permissions in a system.They recommend building something from a point of familiarity for those with an application development background using client libraries.The author used ChatGPT to debug errors but caution against blindly copying code without understanding what's under the hood.Lastly, they encourage enjoying the learning process while experimenting with their playground and contributing to the open-source project.SpiceDB is inspired by Google Zanzibar but differs in some key concepts, which the author explains in a Q&A format.Experimenting with modeling schemas for SpiceDB provides valuable practice for designing the types of objects and permissions.Background knowledge in Cloud, Compute, and Serverless technologies helps in understanding how SpiceDB integrates into Amazon EKS.The author also recommends checking out their guide on protecting a Blog Application with SpiceDB.