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I tend to fall in the trap of once you have authenticated the person and passing tokens around that can hold claims/role for authorization, you will eventually reach the point where the tokens are getting so bloated due to the complexity of access controls.

AuthN is the next big challenge especially in a multi-tenant/multi-enterprise SaaS type platform

https://cerbos.dev/blog/the-hidden-costs-of-user-authorizati...




...and by that I mean authorization is the next big challenge especially in a multi-tenant/multi-enterprise SaaS type platform


Authorization is authz, for what it's worth. "authn" means authentication.




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