Decoupling Authorization: Cerbos with Emre Baran

22/03/2023 29 min

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Episode Synopsis

Emre Baran (@emre) is the CEO and co-founder of Cerbos, the open-source authorization layer for implementing roles and permissions. Cerbos allows developers to decouple authorization logic from core code into its own centrally distributed component. Easier said than done, perhaps - but Cerbos is secure, intentionally simple to implement, and developer-focused.
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In this episode we discuss:

The difference between authentication and authorization

Why Cerbos is language-agnostic

Authorization patterns in a single application versus a larger network

The reason most devs start out trying to do authorization themselves, and sometimes give up

How the upcoming Cerbos Cloud will empower less technical users to deploy and manage policies and logs


Links:

Cerbos

Cerbos Cloud Beta

Zanzibar: Google’s Consistent, Global Authorization System


People mentioned:

Charith Ellawala (Github: @charithe)


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