JWT Fundamentals

Scott Sauber
This week’s Lean BYTES will be presented by Scott Sauber on “JWT Fundamentals.” JSON Web Tokens are all the rage these days, but why? What are they? How do they work? What do you do with them when you have one? Get the answers to these questions and more next Tuesday. Note: we won’t be covering OAuth flows in this Lean BYTES… that will be covered in a future Lean BYTES.
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Early Cloud Habits Creating Chaos at Scale

Brian PapaBear Gerhards
Cloud was supposed to make everything easier — and in many ways, it does. But as your environment grows into mission-critical infrastructure, it can also start to feel like the wild wild west. Teams move fast, flexibility fuels innovation, but without the right guardrails? Costs spiral. Security gaps emerge. Performance takes a hit. And often, organizations don’t realize the full impact until it’s too late.