February 21, 2023
Sam Scott, cofounder and CTO of Oso, joins the house group to speak about what makes authorization a problem, the distinction between authentication and authorization, and what zombies taught him about internet growth.
Sam Scott, cofounder and CTO of Oso, joins the house group to speak about what makes authorization a problem, the distinction between authentication and authorization, and what zombies taught him about internet growth.
Episode notes:
Oso is authorization as a service. Take a look at the docs or discover use instances.
Sam’s publish “Why Authorization is Onerous” coated what makes authorization difficult, some approaches to fixing it, and their related tradeoffs. You can too watch Sam’s speak at PyCon US 2022. Because it’s inconceivable to deal with every part that makes authorization laborious in simply 5,000 phrases, Sam is presently at work on a follow-up article known as “Why Authorization is Onerous Half II.”
Sam first discovered internet growth through Rails for Zombies, a beginner-level Rails course. In creating Oso, he tasked himself with “placing rails on authorization.”
ICYMI: Learn Sam’s publish about greatest practices for securing REST APIs or take heed to his earlier podcast look, the place we talked about how Oso makes safety simpler for builders.
Discover Sam on LinkedIn or GitHub.
At present’s Lifeboat badge winner is OscarRyz for his or her reply to I’m attempting to unravel ’15 puzzle’, however I get ‘OutOfMemoryError’.
Tags: authentication, authorization, OAuth2, oso, the stack overflow podcast
