An Single Sign-On (SSO) platform that adheres to Domain-Driven Design (DDD), Command Query
Responsibility Segregation (CQRS), and Event-Driven Architecture (EDA) principles.
Built to demonstrate enterprise-grade, production-level scalable design patterns for distributed
systems.
The physical person at their computer, using a browser or mobile app.
The OAuth2 client that represents an application (eg: Google Maps, Spotify, etc).
In the context of OAuth2, the server that supports OAuth2/OIDC and can do things like provide access tokens. Usually, the authentication server and authorization server are the same component.
SSO - a generic term for letting someone log in one identity system and get automatically logged in to another identity system.
Grants or denies access to clients based on a valid access token provided by the
client
(eg: Google Drive API - serving files, YouTube API - serving video data, etc).