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SE Radio 664: Emre Baran and Alex Olivier on Stateless Decoupled Authorization Frameworks

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This episode of Software Engineering Radio features Emre Baran and Alex Olivier discussing stateless decoupled authorization frameworks. They explain key concepts like authorization vs authentication, RBAC and ABAC models, and the benefits of externalizing authorization. The guests share real-world examples of authorization failures and introduce Serbos, their policy-based access control solution, while addressing challenges like latency, audit logging, and AI integration.

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A clear look at where authorization belongs when teams stop rebuilding it.

Software Engineering Radio takes up stateless decoupled authorization frameworks, and the discussion stays on a practical engineering problem: where policy should live when teams keep rebuilding authorization.

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If authorization keeps getting rebuilt, this episode helps you decide where to put it.

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