This is a story about a paywall. When this paywall was first created, it was made to be very firm and strong. No one was getting passed it, even if they were savvy enough to disable JavaScript or mess around with the browser inspector. Years later, with a changing of the guard, someone came in to the marketing department looking to shake things up. This person wanted to implement a bypass to the paywall that would allow unregistered users access to paid content. I was the engineer tasked with this seemingly difficult assignment. In this talk I will discuss the steps taken to fully grokking the task and all its requirements, which lead to a solution that worked seamlessly with our current architecture in a very reasonable timeframe.

Speaker

• Mike Auteri