Alex Olivier is a Product Lead at Cerbos. It is a self-hosted, open-source authorization layer that separates your authorization logic from your core application code. He joins the show to talk about the company in more detail and what it can offer to its users. Additionally, he explains the process of Testing and Setting it up. About this Episode
How authorization enables a company to scale, win enterprise clients, and meet regulatory requirements
The ongoing shift in decoupling applications into specialized services, authentication was first, and now authorization being the next big one
Stateful vs Stateless authorization
Configuration vs Code - Cerbos policies
Being ‘Cloud Native’ - first class support for metrics, telemetry, observability
