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Congratulations, you've chosen to use Okta to solve your identity problems. Welcome to the happy sunny utopia of a managed identity solution! But wait! How do you manage your environments? Your applications all have separate production, staging, and development environments. How do you manage that in Okta without writing a…
Read more about Managing Multiple Okta Instances with Terraform Cloud
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REST APIs are hard to design so they serve multiple clients well. As each client has their own needs in terms of data searching, filtering and which fields they want, a traditional REST API will provide a single version of an entity and the client has the responsibility of navigating…
Read more about How to GraphQL in Java
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In modern app development, you quite frequently have a single resource server that provides data to multiple client applications. These applications may share a similar set of users, but need to enforce different permissions. For example, it's possible that not all users of the first application should be allowed to…
Read more about Build Single Sign-on in Java
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Testing is an essential discipline for any non-trivial software project. With a dynamic language like JavaScript, testing is an absolute necessity. This post is on the best tools currently available for Node.js, but here's a quick look at some of the many benefits of testing.
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Browser and mobile feature enhancements move fast. Often times, these technologies move faster than security standards designed to protect them can keep up. OAuth 2.0 offers the best and most mature standard for modern applications. However, there hasn't been an official release of this standard since 2012. Eight years is…
Read more about Use PKCE with OAuth 2.0 and Spring Boot for Better Security
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Usability is a key aspect to consider when creating a web application, and that means designing a clean, easy-to-understand user interface. Leveraging common design languages can help make that goal a reality with their recognizable components that many users will understand right away. However, unlike desktop apps where the operating…
Read more about Build a Beautiful App + Login with Angular Material
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Who doesn't love beer? When you drink a great beer you want to tell someone. You definitely want to be able to remind yourself of the great beers you've had. Enter Brewstr, a beer rating application that allows you to enter a beer you're drinking and give it a rating.…
Read more about Build Reusable React Components
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As part of a security investigation, you may be tasked with determining whether a specific API action occurred throughout your cloud deployment within some distant date range. This would normally be straightforward to determine, by using either the provided CloudTrail querying console or a Security Information and Event Management platform…
Read more about AWS Athena as a Data Analysis Supplement
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REST APIs are a big part of today's Internet. Some of the everyday use cases of REST APIs are:
Read more about Protecting a PHP API Using OAuth
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In this tutorial, you're going to build a client and server application using React for the frontend and Kotlin with Spring Boot for the backend. You'll first build the app unsecured before securing it using Okta. To secure the React frontend, you'll use OAuth 2.0 login, and for the backend,…
Read more about Build a CRUD Application with Kotlin and React
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If you haven't heard, C# 8.0 ships with a new feature that allows you to add default implementations to interfaces. If you're like me, you may be thinking, "Why? Why would I want to add implementations to interfaces? Isn't that what abstract classes are for? Doesn't that go against everything…
Read more about How I Learned to Love Default Implementations in C# 8.0
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Developing services in Java, including REST APIs, wasn't always easy or productive until Spring came along and changed the landscape. Many years have passed since then, and new frameworks have emerged in the community.
Read more about Java REST API Showdown: Which is the Best Framework on the Market?
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