Over the past 10 years we've seen the rise of SaaS companies that sell products for dev and infra teams. Payments, communications, authentication, and observability (to name a few) have all been revolutionized by companies like Stripe, Twilio, Auth0 and Datadog.
In a world where users are starting to care more about their privacy, expect collaboration capabilities from their software, and where adhering to compliance standards is table stakes, Authorization is starting to become one of those concerns to be addressed.
In this talk we'll go over what Authorization is, some of its core concepts, the context that is making it a rising topic, and review some of the alternatives (both buy and build) to solve Authorization.