Articles
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Author Q&A on Leading without Authority
Tathagat Varma, shares his experience of working as an individual contributor at a deeper leadership level. He refers to this as an "Individual Leader". This post explains how to lead without authority.
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Hologram - Finally, AWS Key Distribution that Makes Sense
Faced with the lack of solutions for secure distribution of AWS access keys to developers, AdRoll decided to build their own open source Hologram, a system that brings Amazon's Instance Profile mechanism to developer workstations. Adair details the process, tool design and main features.
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Do we really need identity propagation in SOA and Clouds?
Identity Propagation through Single Sign-On(SSO) has been assumed to be a panacea for all identity issues in SOA and Clouds. In this article, Michael Poulin raises questions around the business feasibility of propagation and proposes a delegate model of representation instead.
Don't SCIM over your Data Model
This opinion piece discusses limitations in the SCIM data model specification as perceived by the author. He provides three specific suggestions which were also posted to the SCIM mailing list. 5
The Future of Authentication
In this IEEE roundtable discussion article, the panelists discuss current authentication approaches, how to authenticate users on mobile devices and the future direction of authentication. 1
Architecting a Cloud-Scale Identity Fabric
In this IEEE article, author Eric Olden discusses an identity fabric that links multiple applications to a single identity to manage the volume of user identities in the cloud. 1
