How Reddit Solved Authorization

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Join us in a livestream with Braden Groom - Staff Engineer at Reddit, and learn how Reddit scaled its authorization layer and achieved p99 <10ms per decision. We'll discuss the challenges of scaling, balancing performance, and user experience. Learn about anonymous authorization, OPA, policy as code vs. data, and more.

We'll discuss:

• ​Why scaling authorization is hard

• ​How to authorize “anonymous” identities

• ​What are the domains where we need to scale authorization

• ​Policy as Code vs Policy as Data in Scaling Authorization

• ​Scale decision engines vs enforcement endpoints

• ​Handling Audit logs for millions of authorization decisions

• ​Balancing application performance and developer/admin/end-user experience

• ​The learning curve of OPA/Rego

• ​Why choose OPA over other solutions

• ​Streamlining policies across the stack (admissions, service to service, end-user)

• ​Using OPA in frontend applications

• ​Q&A