The Boring Bits Bite Back by Katie Miller

Big is better right? Big data, big features, big customers. With those big customers comes requests for big acronyms like SAML, SCIM and RBAC. Getting those implemented depends on a strong foundation. The boring bits that were glossed over when building the company. Users, Accounts, Authorization, Billing… We can prevent heartache, tech debt and stress by getting a handle on them early on. I’ll talk about how to think about these basics as you go without overthinking it so hopefully you spend less time re-building the basics and more time creating products that wow people.