Today we are open-sourcing sso, our single-sign-on authentication proxy — known internally as the S.S. Octopus — used to secure access to internal services at BuzzFeed. This post will cover an overview of the history of authentication at BuzzFeed, why we wrote sso, and a little bit about how it works. We think sso is a useful solution to a problem that many organizations face. Because we’ve benefi
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