The Okta Developer Blog is a place for developers to learn about identity, security, and building better applications.
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Okta is an Identity and Access Management platform. The TL;DR: you offload the responsibility for secure authentication and authorization to Okta so you can focus on the business logic of the app you're building.
Read more about Test in Production with Spring Security and Feature Flags
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When I began programming (in the '80s), computers weren't equipped with a network card by default. The internet was almost unknown and modems were slow and noisy. The software was installed from stacks of flexible floppy disks.
Read more about Deploy a .NET Container with Azure DevOps
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Running REST APIs with AWS Lambda and AWS API Gateway has recently become a very popular option. Although AWS provides its own mechanisms to add an authentication and authorization layer to these APIs, you may want to use your Okta centralized user database and credentials instead.
Read more about Validating Okta Access Tokens in PHP using AWS API Gateway and Lambda Authorizers
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Session management in multi-node applications presents multiple challenges. When the architecture includes a load balancer, client requests might be routed to different servers each time, and the HTTP session might be lost. In this tutorial, I'll walk you through the configuration of session sharing in a multi-node Spring Boot application.
Read more about Easy Session Sharing in Spring Boot with Spring Session and MySQL
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Last month I came out with a video tutorial on Blazor WebAssembly and I thought it would be good to follow up with a written tutorial as well.
Read more about How to Build Securely with Blazor WebAssembly (WASM)
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Have you run across an error message vaguely referencing SameSite in your .NET Apps? Read on, it's time for a change to your code - and I'll explain why.
Read more about How to Adapt Your .NET App for SameSite
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A couple of things have changed in the Rails world since we published our last blog post on Rails. For one, Rails 6.0 was released on August 16, 2019 (Yay progress!), and, for another, Omniauth had a CRSF vulnerability reported (not so great). Does this make you a bit anxious?…
Read more about Easy Authentication for Ruby On Rails Login
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When the products we develop collect sensitive data, it's essential to secure and safeguard it to protect user privacy and the user's identity. Personally identifiable information (PII) is any data that can be used to identify a specific individual, such as name, email address, phone number, US Social Security number,…
Read more about How to Secure PII with Entity Framework Core
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Hi, my name is Joël Franusic and I'm happy to announce that I am, once again, a developer advocate at Okta, focusing on the Python and Go communities.
Read more about Reintroducing Joël Franusic
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Apple announced a Sign in with Apple service at its WWDC developer conference in June 2019. If you're familiar with social login with Google or Facebook, it's very similar. Most of these identity services use OAuth and OpenID Connect (OIDC), and Apple's implementation is similar.
Read more about Ionic + Sign in with Apple and Google
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Okta is an identity platform focused on making authentication easy to build with minimal code. Our goal at Okta is to build a solution so flexible and easy to use, that you'll never have to build authentication again.
Read more about Migrate User Passwords with Okta's Password Hook
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For years the go-to HTML/CSS framework of choice for developers was Bootstrap. A new contender has appeared in the form of Ant Design. Ant should feel familiar to veteran developers but it's built on new principles. Their site spends a good amount of effort distinguishing between good and bad design.…
Read more about Build a React App with ANT Design Principles
Micah Silverman
Franco Tiveron
David Marin
Jimena Garbarino
Heather Downing
Andrew Van Beek
Giorgi Dalakishvili
Joël Franusic
Matt Raible
Heather Wallander
Nickolas Fisher