The Business of Open Source podcast: Simplifying authorization with Emre Baran
In this episode of The Business of Open Source podcast, join Emre Baran, the co-founder and CEO of Cerbos, as he shares his insights and experiences with Emily Omier. Emre discusses the history of Cerbos, overcoming telemetry challenges, examines monetization strategies, and shares some valuable lessons he has learned throughout his journey.
Emre also explains how Cerbos simplifies the authorization process for software developers, allowing them to focus on their core product while Cerbos handles the complexities of authorization management.
Don't miss this engaging conversation. Listen to the latest episode of The Business of Open Source 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:
- Cerbos Hub, a control plane for Cerbos
- 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.
Book a free Policy Workshop to discuss your requirements and get your first policy written by the Cerbos team
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