Category Archives: Engineering & Technology

Okta’s Build & Release System: Rapid Innovation & High Quality via Automation

One of the things we are very proud of here at Okta is our ability to deliver constant innovation via our weekly releases, and delivering that innovation in a high quality way.  To achieve that we maintain a very high … Continue reading

Massive Reduction of Selenium Costs with Sauce Labs

At Okta we provide enterprise grade identity management from the cloud.  Specifically, Okta delivers single sign-on across all your web applications, centralize user management and control, and integration with Active Directory.  We invest heavily in test automation and validation.  A … Continue reading

Consumerizing the Okta User Experience, Part II

Part II: Bringing the Consumer Experience to Okta That was then, this is now Fortunately for all of us enterprise application users, today’s environment is very different from the one I described in Part I of this post.  As Eric … Continue reading

Consumerizing the Okta User Experience, Part I

Part I: Why Enterprise Software Has Such a Bad Rep We are all consumers.  The experience we have with products in our personal lives helps set expectations for any product that we interact with – the enterprise software we use … Continue reading

Building your house on a rock

Every great technology company starts with a great product. When you first start the hard work of turning your vision into living, breathing code, you have critical decisions to make about your foundation. It is critical to “build your house … Continue reading

Are you “agile”?

I’ve interviewed over 300 folks in the last 2 years while building the Okta team. Most have been product development folks. One topic that often comes up is Agile development. As in “do you guys do Agile?”, or “at company … Continue reading