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Akarshan Gandotra

May 4

Part 2 — NGINX auth_request: the small primitive that changed everything

#nginx #kubernetes #webdev #auth

9 min read

Akarshan Gandotra

May 4

Part 1 — Why we built an Auth Gateway instead of putting auth in every service

#nginx #kubernetes #auth #architecture

7 min read

Akarshan Gandotra

May 4

Part 3 — Inside the Auth Service: From Token Validator to Policy Decision Point

#go #jwt #auth #architecture

6 min read

Akarshan Gandotra

May 4

Part 4 — Endpoint classification: OPEN, AUTHENTICATED, ACCESS_CONTROLLED

#go #architecture #auth #kubernetes

8 min read

Akarshan Gandotra

May 4

Part 5 — Multi-tenant auth and routing in Kubernetes

#kubernetes #multitenancy #nginx #auth

8 min read

Akarshan Gandotra

May 4

Part 6 — Authorization at Scale: Access Levels, Roles, and Compact Decisions

#authorization #performance #go #auth

8 min read

Akarshan Gandotra

May 4

Part 7 — Token Revocation Without Killing Performance

#redis #jwt #performance #go

6 min read

Akarshan Gandotra

May 4

Part 8 — Making It Fast: Caching, Hot Paths, and Avoiding DB Calls

#performance #caching #go #redis

7 min read

Akarshan Gandotra

May 4

Part 9 — Operating the gateway: logs, traces, health, and degraded mode

#observability #nginx #kubernetes #sre

9 min read

Akarshan Gandotra

May 4

Part 10 — Lessons learned building a Kubernetes Auth Gateway

#lessonslearned #architecture #platformengineering #kubernetes

10 min read