Now, here’s a treat for those of you who prefer consuming content in written form: I invite you to read this what I name a semi-transcript of the talk. Get the essence of what I talked about, with my clumsy so’s, uh’s, um’s, and yeah’s edited out. Also, I will put some additional explanation or follow-up wherever something has happened post-conference.

I’m also omitting slides except for these that illustrate syntax snippets of Permit usage, since most of them convey the ideas I was talking about.

Intro

Hello and welcome to today's presentation, in which we are going to cover the topic of managing authorization and access control in Elixir codebases. We'll, as the subtitle states, have a bit of case studies and practical solutions using Elixir, for which we'll mainly present a library that we have developed for making our lives easier.

Just to be fully clear, this talk is only going to cover authorization, not authentication. We're not going to be dealing with anything like phx.gen.auth and so on. We're also not going to be talking about API authorization, so OAuth, OpenID, and these kinds of things are out of scope of this talk. These are obviously also interesting subjects that we could touch on in the future.