Authentication is scary, difficult, dangerous, and… essential. Most apps need some form of it, often as a prerequisite for almost all end-user requests.

My talk proposes an authentication architecture for the modern open web, using modern passwordless standards and edge computing; one that’s fast, distributed, secure, isolated from the rest of your system, and minimally annoying to integrate and maintain.

Bio: Dora is a Developer Relations Engineer at Fastly, where she tells stories with code and dreams of helping to build a faster, more secure, more reliable–a better web–for everyone.