Most companies have a ton of valuable data internally. This could be analytics data on your customers interactions with your product. This could be an audit log of actions taken within the product (which is another way to see when different features ...
FastAPI is a modern web framework for building APIs in Python. It’s one of my personal favorite web frameworks as it has built-in support for OpenAPI specs (meaning you can write your backend code and generate everything from it) and it supports depe...
One of my responsibilities at PropelAuth is writing example apps / guides in various languages / frameworks. It’s truly one of the most fun parts of my job. I get to play around with different stacks, new and old, and figure out the best ways to supp...
If you’ve ever searched for OAuth (or OAuth2 or OpenID connect/OIDC), you’ve probably been greeted with a picture that looks like this: (source) along with some descriptions of resource servers, the difference between authentication and authorizatio...
Stripe is a platform that allows companies of all sizes to accept payments, issue invoices and generally manage their billing. Their offering is necessarily a bit complex, and they have a roles structure to match. Every user can have a combination of...
I wrote a blog post the other day about how Next.js Middleware can be useful for working around some of the restrictions imposed by server components. This led to some fun discussions in the world about whether this was a reasonable approach or if Ne...
