Uploaded January 2024 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago
Lane chats with Dev Agrawal— content creator & Developer Advocate at Clerk! Tune in as they discuss DevRel, authentication vs. authorization, JWT, and so much more in this episode.
Learn back-end development - https://boot.dev
Listen on your favorite podcast player: https://www.backendbanter.fm
Dev's Twitter: twitter.com/devagrawal09
Dev's Youtube: youtube.com/@devagr
Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
00:50 Is Dev's name really Dev?
02:10 What is it about writing code that scares Dev?
02:50 JavaScript is one of the worst with dependencies
03:09 Dev's ideal world
03:20 .NET and Blazor
03:59 Blazor explained
04:36 WASM on the Front-end
05:04 Is Blazor unique to C# ?
06:11 What is a DevRel?
08:07 Lane's experience
09:13 You shouldn't roll your own Auth
11:59 Undifferentiated work
13:56 Authentication vs Authorization
16:19 Regarding Auth, which is a bigger pain point for companies
16:48 Pain points of Authorization
18:38 Pain Points of Authentication
20:23 Lane's perspective
22:29 Using a third party for authorization
24:27 Is Clerk used for both Authentication and Authorization?
26:16 JWT explained
28:39 Where is the users' data stored?
29:27 Features are developed as needed
29:52 Auth coupling to the rest of the system
30:16 Webhooks listeners to access user session data
31:03 Postgres foreign-data wrapper
32:09 Microservices sharing databases
34:29 CQRS
37:37 Average size of a company that uses Clerk
40:50 What are the most used ways to sign-in
42:04 Stances on passwords
46:56 OAuth
50:33 Why Lane dropped Sign-in with Twitter/X
51:14 What do popular services usually use?
52:24 Sign-in with Google
57:39 Unpopular opinion on Auth related web architecture
01:00:17 2 ways of doing authentication
01:05:59 Where to find Dev
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Lane chats with Dev Agrawal— content creator & Developer Advocate at Clerk! Tune in as they discuss DevRel, authentication vs. authorization, JWT, and so much more in this episode.
Learn back-end development - https://boot.dev
Listen on your favorite podcast player: https://www.backendbanter.fm
Dev's Twitter: twitter.com/devagrawal09
Dev's Youtube: youtube.com/@devagr
Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
00:50 Is Dev's name really Dev?
02:10 What is it about writing code that scares Dev?
02:50 JavaScript is one of the worst with dependencies
03:09 Dev's ideal world
03:20 .NET and Blazor
03:59 Blazor explained
04:36 WASM on the Front-end
05:04 Is Blazor unique to C# ?
06:11 What is a DevRel?
08:07 Lane's experience
09:13 You shouldn't roll your own Auth
11:59 Undifferentiated work
13:56 Authentication vs Authorization
16:19 Regarding Auth, which is a bigger pain point for companies
16:48 Pain points of Authorization
18:38 Pain Points of Authentication
20:23 Lane's perspective
22:29 Using a third party for authorization
24:27 Is Clerk used for both Authentication and Authorization?
26:16 JWT explained
28:39 Where is the users' data stored?
29:27 Features are developed as needed
29:52 Auth coupling to the rest of the system
30:16 Webhooks listeners to access user session data
31:03 Postgres foreign-data wrapper
32:09 Microservices sharing databases
34:29 CQRS
37:37 Average size of a company that uses Clerk
40:50 What are the most used ways to sign-in
42:04 Stances on passwords
46:56 OAuth
50:33 Why Lane dropped Sign-in with Twitter/X
51:14 What do popular services usually use?
52:24 Sign-in with Google
57:39 Unpopular opinion on Auth related web architecture
01:00:17 2 ways of doing authentication
01:05:59 Where to find Dev
Like & subscribe for the algo if you enjoyed the video!
