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Do you remember shopping online during the early days of ecommerce? At that point, engaging with a brand meant dozens of fields to fill out, long latency, and losing your entire order if you hit the back button—it was a bad experience all around. Now, all too often, developer experience is in the same place that user and customer experiences were…

They say if you want something done, you have to do it yourself. But that doesn’t apply to customer identity and access management (CIAM). In fact, falling for the trap of thinking that it’s easy to embed a strong identity layer into user experiences can be a costly mistake. Digital products and services are key business drivers, and their…

Today’s organizations have high hopes for their software and their developers—and so do their customers. According to Gartner, 86% of organizations expect their user experience to be their main competitive differentiator by 2021, a trend that’s reflected in their business priorities. More than ever, teams are doubling down on delivering software…

The heat is on for organizations everywhere. Customer needs and expectations are ever-evolving—and for many companies, that means a constant push to develop new product features. While this is a natural response in a competitive marketplace, it pays to remember the bedrock of software success: strong architecture. For solution providers looking to…

Since 2015, Okta has celebrated the innovation of, and collaboration with, our exceptional customers. And now, in 2020, the word “collaboration” takes on a new resonance, as our personal and professional lives are merging in ways they never have before. It’s collaboration that has allowed us to transform this year’s Oktane conference into Oktane20…

There are a number of things that help make an application what it is—the most fundamental of which is the architecture it’s based on. To date, most technology has been built on monolithic architecture, with all components existing within one complex application. More recently, however, developers have started compartmentalizing each component or…

User experience is top of mind for developers building customer-facing applications—and an important element of that is collecting user information. When developers avoid lengthy forms and overwhelming data capture as part of the onboarding process, users have a more seamless experience, right from the outset of using a new application. This…

Every development team must decide which components to build in-house and which to offload to a 3rd party vendor. This decision is often difficult and hotly debated. After all, most developers chose this career in order to build cool things! Choosing to relinquish that control to buy a solution can seem contrary to their raison d’etre. But…

TL;DR: Building login and multi-factor authentication (MFA) for custom apps can be challenging, time-consuming, and risky. This post provides the top tutorials and SDKs that can be used to quickly leverage login and MFA provided by Okta. Your developers can streamline development and focus on building the best user experience, while you control…

As the head of security for DEF CON, I’ve seen a lot of articles (and a bit of scaremongering) around the threats at the event. While DEF CON is a technically hostile environment, I promise, it is not a dystopian wasteland. A little common sense goes a LONG way. Here’s your basic guide for how to stay safe: Don’t bring your work devices. Use…