Every application needs authorization. It’s the backbone that decides who can access what, when, and under which conditions. But the hard part isn’t granting permissions, it’s getting them right. If permissions are too coarse, users lose confidence that their data is secure. If they’re too complex, engineers drown in brittle logic, scattered checks, and hard-to-trace..
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