Evolving Authorization for Our Advertising Platform

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  • WorkOS - The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS
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  • OPA (Open Policy Agent)

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

  • After looking at a few options, we opted to use Open Policy Agent (OPA). OPA was already in use at Reddit for Kubernetes-related authorization tasks and so there was already traction behind it. Moreover, OPA has Go bindings which make it easy to integrate into our Go service. OPA also offers a testing framework which we use to enforce 100% coverage for policy authors.

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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