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Making the chicken dance one line of code at a time

AWS Cognito with Winforms

Lets make the legacy app work with the new stuff

Jeremy Oursler

5 minutes read

Legacy software is fun. Sometimes we need to update code to enable new authentictaion methods. In todays adventure our intrepid developer heads off on the quest to get the legacy .net framework 4.6.1 WinForms app working with the new user store, AWS Cognito.

Deciding on an identity provider for a greenfield application stack

So many options to do things badly, so few to do it right

Jeremy Oursler

8 minutes read

Once again we enter the scene with the developer manager trying to figure out what the best way to secure the applications are. This one is different from the API gateway since it is meant for users and not just automated access. The additional wrinkle is that as part of this project we wanted to add SSO to our reporting portal, a soon to be built order entry portal, and a client invoicing portal. So three different apps, one being migrated from Web Forms, one a third party product, and…

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