43: Modern Authentication and User Management with Sokratis Vidros of Clerk.dev

Highlights from this week's episode:

• Sokratis' realization that big corporations were not the best thing for him (2:56)
• Transitioning for Workable to Clerk.dev (3:40)
• Convincing developers to outsource components to a service (9:36)
• Clerk's layered solutions and how it affects the developer and the end-user (12:41)
• Starting with Clerk from scratch vs. using Clerk to replace an existing component (19:55)
• Synergies and SaaS starter kit (24:06)
• Building Clerk to avoid a single point of failure (29:19)
• Reflecting back on the transformation and growth of Workable, and how it was like working at eight different companies (33:03)
• Lessons that Sokratis has taken away from his years as a developer (42:18)

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