CENTRAL CODE STATIONInsights — Engineering
Engineering articles
Writing from Central Code Station filed under Engineering.
Why we built our own identity server instead of buying one
SSO vendors solve 80% of the problem and charge for the other 20% forever. Here's the actual math behind building CCS Identity Server in-house — and when we'd tell a client not to do the same.
Read the article →The real cost of rebuilding auth for every client project
We used to build authentication from scratch on every engagement. Here's what tracking that cost across a dozen projects actually showed us.
Read the article →Architecture seams: planning for scale without over-building
A practical framework for deciding which parts of a system need room to grow — and which don't, yet.
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