Introducing the OAuth Technology Preview in NGINX Plus R8
Getting identity management right in modern application and API development is an increasingly important and demanding challenge. A number of developments in the industry are putting pressure on existing identity solutions. Integrated web experiences enable users to navigate seamlessly between different applications without requiring multiple login events. User experience is improved by giving users a choice about which identity they use with a given application, instead of requiring yet another password in yet another isolated, proprietary database. Microservices architectures (and decomposed monoliths) can require developers to reimplement the same authentication and authorization logic over and over. Applications deployed at scale (in a cluster) need to offload as many non-core operations as possible, for example encryption and authentication. Supporting the numerous existing identity standards involves undifferentiated heavy lifting that impinges on time spent on the application itself. At NGINX we are [ more… ]
