159: Supertokens with Rishabh Poddar

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Rishabh Poddar is the CTO and co-founder of SuperTokens, an open source user authentication service. Rishabh has always been fascinated with computers and began coding when he was 12 years old. Programming came easily to him, and he loved doing it, so he went to school for computer science and made it his career.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In this episode, we have a conversation about creating SuperTokens and how they work compared to other authentication techniques. Rishabh shares how to prevent impersonation, the architecture of SuperTokens, tips for JavaScript developers, and more.</span></p> <p><strong>Show Highlights:</strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Rishabh's earliest memory with a computer.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Why he created an operating system from scratch.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">What got Rishabh interested in authentication.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">What a rotating refresh token is.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">What SuperTokens core strength is.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">How passwordless authentication works.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">What cross origin resource sharing (CORS) is.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">What the SuperTokens business model us.</span></li> </ul> <p><strong>Links:</strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Rishabh on Twitter:</span> <a href= "https://twitter.com/rishpoddar"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">https://twitter.com/rishpoddar</span></a></li> <li style="font-weight: