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Authorization
Quick Definition
Determining what resources a user can access
Full Definition
Determining what resources an authenticated user is permitted to access.
Examples
RBAC, ABAC, permissions, role-based access control
Related Terms
authentication
rbac
access-control
More Backend Terms
Load Balancing
Distributing traffic across multiple backend servers
Apache Kafka
Distributed event streaming platform for high-throughput data
gRPC
High-performance RPC framework using Protocol Buffers
GraphQL
Query language for APIs requesting exactly needed data
OAuth
Open standard for token-based authentication and authorization
API Versioning
Maintaining multiple API versions for backward compatibility