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If you only knew how bad modern software infrastructure really was

Yeah, for a similar vendor, it's interesting to read this page and look at the diagram:

And then read this tweet:

https://twitter.com/auth0/status/1471159935597793290

Edit: Ah, seems they picked us-west-1 and us-west-2 as the two regions..."In this case, we use two AWS regions: us-west-2 (our primary) and us-west-1 (our failover)."[1] So bit by a double-region failure.

[1] https://auth0.com/blog/auth0-architecture-running-in-multipl...

Now that Okta bought Auth0 what's the developer experience like I wonder? I imagine the infrastructure of the two products are still completely isolated. But is it still a separate product you can use for identity management or are new customers forced to use Okta?

Auth0 customer: they kept everything isolated (and promised it will stay like that for a while)

> for a while

What else is everyone using?

Any thoughts on how to future proof this?

Looks like future-proof already, for a while.

It's still running on a Perl script I wrote over a decade ago.

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