Comment by inkyoto
12 hours ago
Okta and auth0 are, fundamentally, two distinct products – conceived, designed, and engineered by entirely separate entities.
auth0, as a product, distinguished itself with a modern, streamlined architecture and a commendable focus on developer experience. As an organisation, auth0 further cemented its reputation through the publication of a consistently high-calibre technical blog. Its content goes deeply into advanced subjects such as fine-grained API access control via OIDC scopes, RBAC, ABAC and LBAC models – a level of discourse rare amongst vendors in this space.
It was, therefore, something of a jolt – though in retrospect, not entirely unexpected – when Okta acquired auth0 in 2021. Whether this move was intended to subsume a superior product under the mediocrity of its own offering or to force a consolidation of the two remains speculative. As for the fate of the auth0 product itself, I must admit I am not in possession of definitive information – though history offers little comfort when innovation is placed under the heel of corporate, IPO driven strategy.
Apart from auth0 getting hacked, before getting acquired by Okta. [0]
[0] https://auth0.com/blog/auth0-code-repository-archives-from-2...
What is the point that you are trying to make?
Okta has committed to and has had a consitent track record of delivering at least one full scale security breach and the consistent user expericence degradation to their customers every year – and completely free of charge.
Auth0 spent more time documenting and blogging about standards than documenting their own software. It was a bit bizarre. Their documentation was absent and or terrible IIRC
Indeed, although I am in no position to make comments on the quality of their own product specific documentation.
Surprisingly, I have found that many people struggle to wrap their heads around the relative simple concepts of RBAC, ABAC and, more recently, LBAC. auth0 did a great job at unfolding such less trivial concepts into a language that made them accessible to a wider audience, which, in my books, is a great feat and accomplishment.
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