Randall Degges
Head of Developer Relations & Community
Bend, Oregon, United States
Randall runs Developer Relations & Community at Snyk, where he works on security research, development, and education. In his spare time, Randall writes articles and gives talks advocating for security best practices. Randall also builds and contributes to various open-source security tools.
Randall's realms of expertise include Python, JavaScript, and Go development, web security, cryptography, and infrastructure security. Randall has been writing software for over 20 years and has built a number of popular API services and open-source tools.
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12 Factors of Pain and Suffering
Interested in seeing how an experienced developer falls short in the real world? In this talk, you'll learn, laugh, and cry at all the ways a professional developer has screwed up -- in production. Along the way, you'll discover the joys of the 12-factor application and its guiding principles.
JSON Web Tokens Suck
JSON Web Tokens (JWTs) are all the rage in the security world. They’re becoming more and more ubiquitous in web authentication libraries, and are commonly used to store a user’s identity information.
In this talk Randall Degges, Head of Developer Advocacy at Okta, will take you on an extensive tour of the web authentication landscape. You’ll learn how JWTs and Sessions work, and why JWTs are the worst possible solution for solving web authentication problems.
You’ll also learn the real reason behind JWTs rise to fame, and better ways to secure your websites that don’t involve misplaced hype.
Useful Cryptography, An Introduction
Cryptography is often thought of as a scary topic, but it doesn't have to be. In this talk, you'll learn about different types of useful cryptography, how they work (without needing a PhD in mathematics), and how to immediately start applying these concepts in your projects.
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