Mistral is doing some really great stuff lately. Sure, it's hard to compete with OpenAI and Anthropic and their models, but they are taking up some interesting takes and designing their product in unique ways.
I like a lot what they are doing and I'll be watching them a lot more closely. I'd love to work for them btw!
yeah, I wrote it myself, but since I'm not a native English speaker, I do use AI to "fix" and "polish". I think AI made me a worst writer in a way lol.
it's my bad, I should have been more careful at keeping the content how I wrote it, without much of the fine tuning GPT did.
I worry about that too, but I'm not sure we are close to that yet. Maybe we'll end up working on legacy systems where AI would break more than it would fix, or maybe we would become prompters. Idk!
Auth0 is constantly releasing new features, including a new major offering now for AI agents. Plus is still very active in the development community, with open source like OpenFGA, frameworks, contributions to standards and so much more.
Not sure where the maintenance mode is coming from...
I've seen solutions implementing authorization in multiple ways, some still rely on the underlying services that map to the tools, guaranteeing the AT sent to those services is acting on behalf of the user.
Other's do checks at the tool level, systems like openfga can help make that easier by centralizing the authorization policies.
There are multiple ways, you can use known authorization methods like RBAC, or if you want something more fancy ReBac (tools like openfga, https://openfga.dev).
But there's only so much that you can do with that, if you need to call third party APIs on the user's behalf I'd recommend going with a solution revolving around custom token exchange (https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8693).
This is a really solid primer. I appreciate that the author didn't just jump straight to the most complex solution (CDC/Event Sourcing) but actually laid out the progression of strategies.
While "Sequential Dual-Write" is technically flawed, I think it's fair to admit that it's where 90% of projects start (and stay) until the pain becomes real.
That said, the section on the Transactional Outbox is the highlight here. It really is the most pragmatic middle ground for most engineering teams.It's as good as it gets without kafka.
In Germany you also have the UG which is like a small GmbH, with 1 eur minimum capital requirement, that is if you like like the 1k (and up to 2k) it cost to set up.
Some tax consultants are very shady, and some are really arrogant. I'm currently looking for one as we had some disagreements on pricing with my previous one, and many won't even take me due to my volume, or maybe because I ask to speak English, idk...
But sometimes I feel they are doing me a favor by taking my company, rather than me feeling like I'm hiring them as a service.