43: Modern Authentication and User Management with Sokratis Vidros of Clerk.dev
On this week's episode of The Data Stack Show, Eric and Kostas are joined by Sokratis Vidros, founding engineer at Clerk.dev, a complete user management solution with easy to use APIs for developers.
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Show Notes
Highlights from this week's episode:
- Sokratis' realization that big corporations were not the best thing for him (2:56)
- Transitioning for Workable to Clerk.dev (3:40)
- Convincing developers to outsource components to a service (9:36)
- Clerk's layered solutions and how it affects the developer and the end-user (12:41)
- Starting with Clerk from scratch vs. using Clerk to replace an existing component (19:55)
- Synergies and SaaS starter kit (24:06)
- Building Clerk to avoid a single point of failure (29:19)
- Reflecting back on the transformation and growth of Workable, and how it was like working at eight different companies (33:03)
- Lessons that Sokratis has taken away from his years as a developer (42:18)
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