React Round Up podcast: User authorization with Cerbos

In this episode of the React Round Up podcast, listeners have the opportunity to hear from Cerbos' own Alex Olivier as he joins TJ VanToll to talk about Cerbos in more detail and what it can offer to its users. Additionally, Alex explains the process of testing and setting Cerbos up.

In the episode, Alex dives into the world of authorization and how it can help companies scale, win enterprise clients, and meet regulatory requirements. He also highlights the current trend of decoupling applications into specialized services, with authorization being the next big step after authentication. But he’s not stopping there - Alex also breaks down the difference between stateful and stateless authorization and gives an introduction to Cerbos policies, which provide a perfect balance between configuration and code.

As a cloud native company, Cerbos is all about offering top-notch support for metrics, telemetry, and observability. And for those who are new to Cerbos, Alex provides an overview of what the company is all about.

Don't miss this insightful discussion. Listen to the latest episode of the React Round Up podcast now and learn how Cerbos can help improve your application's performance, security and streamline its access control logic.

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Are you looking to improve your application's authorization logic and security? Look no further than Cerbos! Discover how Cerbos works and explore its powerful features, including:

• the Cerbos playground, where you can easily build and test policies in an online editor
• the Cerbos ecosystem and its seamless integrations with various SDKs, modern frameworks, and authentication providers
• how to unlock the full potential of Cerbos by learning about the conditions you can use in policies with Google's CEL
• understand how to build Derived Roles for contextual role decisions
• take advantage of Cerbos' unit testing and validating and testing policies in a CI/CD pipeline
• discover the various deployment patterns and learn how to deploy Cerbos as a sidecar.

Get started building your first policies with ease and join the companies that trust Cerbos in production for their authorization needs.