Note: In May 2025, the Okta Integrator Free Plan replaced Okta Developer Edition Accounts, and the Okta CLI was deprecated. We preserved this post for reference, but the instructions no longer work exactly as written. Replace the Okta CLI commands by manually configuring Okta following the instructions in our Developer Documentation. As recently as seven short years ago, building video applications on the web was a massive pain. Remember the days of using Flash and...

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When you’ve built a successful software-as-a-service product, you tend to run into interesting technical (and business) questions. My favorite question is: “How do we add more functionality to our platform faster?” It’s an interesting question because everyone wants to build features faster. In a perfect world, you’d be able to hire 100,000 engineers, split them into teams of four (with no managers!), and have each team own a feature: spec it out, build it, iterate...

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