Level: Intermediate
Managing users, roles, and authentication in Postgres can quickly become complex—especially at scale. In this talk, we’ll explore how we addressed this challenge by integrating Postgres authentication into our platform through a custom proxy with passwordless authentication. We’ll share our motivations, architectural decisions, and implementation strategy—including how we streamlined role management using external identity providers, mapped service and user identities to granular Postgres roles, and eliminated password management entirely for internal users. Whether you're building a multi-tenant SaaS or looking to simplify your authentication model, this talk will offer practical insights and reusable patterns to bring back to your own systems.