3 years ago

Category: Business

How many times have you or your teams (re)built an authorization system? During the time I was the CPO at Puppet, we built (or rebuilt) authorization systems at least three times across our product portfolio. We did it not because it was a unique source of differentiation, but because our customers needed to integrate our products with the identity and access systems and processes they already had.

And as much as we would have liked to avoid reinventing this wheel, there wasn’t a developer API for authorization that we could utilize, in the same way, that we used Auth0 for authentication or Stripe for payments.

What are your must-have attributes for an authorization service?