APIs are eating the world. Over the past 10 years, we've seen the rise APIs for dev and infra teams that have revolutionized how we solve problems like payments (Stripe), communications (Twilio), authentication (Auth0).
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 explain how developers can use APIs their authorization use cases.