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It might seem obvious, but HTTP is a transfer protocol for hypertext. It was designed — in 1989 — to allow clients to request and receive hypertext documents from a server. While the protocol is undoubtedly a revolutionary technology, modern web applications have evolved far beyond simply responding to client…
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Today's Web users are a lot more sophisticated than just a few years ago. They expect applications to be fast, secure, and work equally well on their desktops and phones. Meeting these expectations requires a great deal of work so you can provide a reliable backend and a fully dynamic…
Read more about Symfony 4.3 + Vue.js: PHP Apps Made Simple
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Today's users expect your app to be accessible from their computer, mobile phone, tablet, or any other device! This transition to Software as a Service (SaaS) as the norm requires developers to effectively integrate with robust tools that scale to handle thousands (or even millions) of requests every second. Apache…
Read more about Kafka with Java: Build a Secure, Scalable Messaging App
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On September 23rd, Microsoft announced the third major release of its .NET Core framework. This new release boasts better performance, support for Windows Desktop apps, improved support for Docker containers, and more. Naturally, I was excited to see this new release and get authentication hooked into it with Okta! I…
Read more about ASP.NET Core 3.0 MVC Secure Authentication
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React Native is a mobile app development framework that allows you to use React to build native iOS and Android mobile apps. Instead of using a web view and rendering HTML and JavaScript, it converts React components to native platform components. This means you can use React Native in your…
Read more about Create a React Native App with Login in 10 Minutes
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I've always liked microservices because they embrace small, well-encapsulated building blocks. They mitigate deployment hell by treating each component of a software system as its own product, with versions, testing, and releases.
Read more about Build a Simple Microservice with C# Azure Functions
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When you develop a new web application, you most likely split the application into two parts. The server-side provides access control and data persistence, while the client-side is mostly presentational. The two parts have to communicate, and your first idea may be to implement a REST API. However, a number…
Read more about Use Vue and GraphQL to Build a Secure App
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Ever since JavaScript made its giant leap from frontend to backend more than 10 years ago, Express has been the go-to library for writing server-side javascript and virtually synonymous with Node.js. It was (and in many aspects it still is) a modern and simple approach backend APIs. Declarative tree-like structure…
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In this post, you'll build a .Net Framework application with Visual Studio on Windows 10. You'll then containerize your application so it can be reliably deployed and run on any instance of Docker for Windows.
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Modern applications rely on user authentication, but it can present Java developers with a difficult challenge, as well as a range of framework-specific options to choose from. We have seen many Spring developers start with a simple, home-grown authentication service they plan to replace "later" with a more robust option...…
Read more about OAuth 2.0 Java Guide: Secure Your App in 5 Minutes
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CodeIgniter is a simple, lightweight PHP framework that remains a popular option for many developers. It might lack the sophisticated architecture and advanced features of Symfony or Laravel, but it compensates with a small footprint and a shallow learning curve.
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On September 19, 2019, we held our first Okta Developer office hours. Our goal was to host a live Q&A with developers that use Okta. Over 150 developers attended!
Read more about Okta Developer Office Hours Q&A - September 2019 Edition
Charlie Holland
Krasimir Hristozov
Daniel Pereira
Lee Brandt
Matt Raible
Chris Green
Holger Schmitz
Ivo Katunaric