There is nothing more daunting than a blank page. It stares at you. It taunts you.
It’s not like you don’t know what you want to do. You have a clear picture of the awesome that you want to unleash. You can almost envision the smiles on your boss’s or customer’s face as they delight in the awesome you will create. But the problem is there’s a blank page in front of you.
So you reach for your tools. Because you’re reading this, it’s likely you are a developer or identity management professional. Either way, you know that security is paramount and you want to protect the awesome that you intend to build.
Enter OAuth. You’ve heard of it. You know it has something to do with protecting resources—most notably APIs. It’s super popular and, apparently, it can do anything. And the problem with things that can do anything is that they make it hard to do something. They are yet another blank page.
Enter Justin and Antonio and this book. The easiest way to get over the paralysis when working with a thing that can do anything is to start and just try to do something. This book not only explains what OAuth does, it gently guides you through the process of doing something, at the end of which not only will you have a very solid understanding of OAuth as a tool, but you’ll no longer have a blank page in front of you—you’ll be ready to deliver the awesome that’s in your head.