CIAM vs. IAM: What's the difference (2022)

• OPA (Open Policy Agent)

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  Open Policy Agent (OPA) is an open source, general-purpose policy engine.

  

CIAM is not nearly as popular of a term as it needs to be. When most developers build apps today, they still look at their cloud provider's IAM or Active Directory for inspiration in design of their customer-facing systems. I think this article is actually understating the complexity. Conway's Law rules all and sometimes your systems and users won't even necessarily be in your control. I urge folks to look into policy engines like OPA[0] and ReBAC systems like SpiceDB[1] rather than reinventing the wrong wheel.

[0]: https://www.openpolicyagent.org

[1]: https://github.com/authzed/spicedb

• fusionauth-site

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  Website and documentation for FusionAuth

  

Thanks for the comments! Will try to address them in the near future, tracking here: https://github.com/FusionAuth/fusionauth-site/issues/2170

• InfluxDB

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  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

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