I was working on something internally for Hippo the other day. Nothing groundbreaking, but very useful.

All of our internal apps use authentication the same way, through onelogin. We don’t want to configure this for every application so it’s configured at our top level nginx and every app just needs to specify the role it wants.

Like I said, nothing groundbreaking in this day and age.

In previous years, I would write a short blog post and I would have a small GitHub repository with a docker-compose file showing you the set-up.

Over the years, I would get so many of “you saved my life” comments from people that these little blog post helped and it was a great motivation to continue doing that.

Is the point now to go deeper?

Maybe the point of doing that would be deeper?

Would most engineers know to ask to do this at the nginx level or would they ask to do that at the application level?

Should we convert our blog posts from “here’s how you do it?” to “here’s what the architecture of something like this should look like” Even then, would people do the research? Would the AI give them these tips after consuming your post into their brain?

I don’t really have the answers but I would love your thoughts on this matter. My Twitter link is at the bottom of the page, hit me up.