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Jun 15, 2023

The nuts and bolts of oauth2.0 (part2)

This is part 2 of nuts and bolts of OAuth 2.0, continuing part 1. In this section, I’ll explore the client credentials flow for machine-to-machine communication

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May 12, 2023

Passkeys: The New Passwordless Login

In this blog, I’m going to explain what passkeys are and how they came into picture in modern authentication and basic flow of passkey registration and authentication.

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Mar 27, 2023

My Essential macOS Tools for Productivity

In this post, I’ll share the macOS tools I actually use and depend on. I’ll intentionally skip obvious, work specific tools like Docker, VS Code, IntelliJ IDEA, and Xcode. Instead, focus on tools that improve day-to-day work efficiency.

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Mar 19, 2023

The nuts and bolts of OAuth 2.0 (Part 1)

In this blog, I want to summarize whatever I learned from the nuts and bolts of OAuth 2.0 by Aaron Parecki’s Udemy course. This was one of the nicest things I have done when starting to learn OAuth myself (and I surely recommend this).

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Bala

An ID Developer at Money Forward, Tokyo. Designing secure authentication solutions using OAuth2.0, OpenID, SAML, and Passkeys. Experienced in microservices, DevOps, and SRE optimizations. Passionate about building robust, secure identity systems. LinkedIn.

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