Things I’ve Learnt This Week (5th February)

I’m keeping up my plan (week 2 yay!) to record and share things I’ve learned during the last week. Less from me this week as it’s been fairly hectic and I’ve been feeling a bit unwell.

Things I’ve Learned

Identity Server 4

As part of my work for Humanitarian Toolbox I’ve been actively investigating Identity Server 4 as an option to handle our authentication. The allReady application currently uses ASP.NET Core Identity within the application to support login and user management. As the product nears v1 release discussions have begun around the use cases for the application, including potential for multi-tenancy and considerations around storage of user accounts. As a result this led Richard Campbell to suggest we look into Identity Server 4 to help with this identity flow.

I was lucky enough to have an audience with Brock Allen and Dominick Baier this week to chat through some of the basics about Identity Server. It was really useful to chat with them both and I want to thank them for offering their time and support to the project. One of the key take-aways for me from the call was getting a better understanding of where Identity server fits into the puzzle. It’s about authentication and helping with the protocol of OAuth2 / OpenId communications. It’s not a user management / user store product, although it does sit nicely on top of ASP.NET Core Identity 3 as an option.

As I continue investigating and testing Identity Server 4, I hope to put together some more details posts about how we’re using it and what I learn along the way.

Things I’ve Read

In no particular order here’s some of the blogs and posts that I’ve read this week.

Things I’ve Listened To

Things I’ve Watched


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Steve Gordon

Steve Gordon is a Pluralsight author, 7x Microsoft MVP, and a .NET engineer at Elastic where he maintains the .NET APM agent and related libraries. Steve is passionate about community and all things .NET related, having worked with ASP.NET for over 21 years. Steve enjoys sharing his knowledge through his blog, in videos and by presenting talks at user groups and conferences. Steve is excited to participate in the active .NET community and founded .NET South East, a .NET Meetup group based in Brighton. He enjoys contributing to and maintaining OSS projects. You can find Steve on most social media platforms as @stevejgordon

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