Jon Todd

All posts by Jon Todd

1. REST Service Authorization with JWTs

   January 5, 2016 |

   1 min read

   Many companies are adopting micro-services based architectures to promote decoupling and separation of concerns in their applications. One inherent challenge with breaking applications up into small services is that now each service needs to deal with authenticating and authorizing requests made to it. Json Web Tokens (JWTs) offer a clean…

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2. Okta Software Engineering Design Principles

   May 8, 2015 |

   4 min read

   Okta has been an agile development shop since the beginning. One important aspect of being agile is enabling a mix of bottom-up and top-down decision making. Specifically where high level vision and strategy is clearly communicated enabling teams to autonomously deliver value while also feeding back learnings from the trenches…

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