World Congress 2026 North America • Sep 25, 2026 • Session details

It passed auth, then production caught fire

Authorization bugs are no longer just security risks—they are site reliability emergencies. Stop fragmented permissions from burning down your distributed systems with externalized policies.

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3:35 min

Navigating the complexities of authorization maintenance in applications

Alex Olivier

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Architecting a decoupled authorization request execution lifecycle

Alex Olivier

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1:32 min

Decoupling business logic with policy as code

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2:21 min

Adopting authorization capabilities as a decoupled external service

Alex Olivier

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2:06 min

Identifying challenges of hardcoding authorization logic

Halil Özkan

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Challenges of replicating authorization logic across distributed microservices

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