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IAM shouldn't be a thing to learn. It's account management, default and easy to access options should be sane enough for most people to use. At big companies, s
by Fordec 6y ago
IAM shouldn't be a thing to learn. It's account management, default and easy to access options should be sane enough for most people to use. At big companies, sure someone has it as a dedicated part of their job description. But if you're in the majority of smaller companies, ones maybe that's just doing e-commerce and tech isn't their core skill set, account settings should be near invisible and still be trustworthy. It's not the Slacks of the world that have an issue with this, but the long tail of the world we now live in that software has eaten and companies are just scrambling to exist in it. Flutter integration is not in the list of concerns of this long tail.
And telling them to "just learn it" isn't the customer focused mindset, it's the engineering one.
- cbushko 6y agoI created all of the IAM roles that our 100+ person company uses. It was and is important from a security standpoint that we do not just blindly give too many permissions to employees. I had to do some research to understand what the bare minimum was and it wasn't too difficult to do. Custom roles created through Terraform helped a lot.
- f430 6y agoIt absolutely is required beyond small 3 person startups. Google is great to get started but when you are dealing with a dozen or more developers, especially at large organizations IAM offers that granular control and overview. Yes its a bit of a pain having to add policies sometimes when you are first getting started but once it's up and running you can rest easy. Learning it isn't that much more time consuming or difficult, its just a bit of effort that is all (we are talking a few hours at most).