​The case for owning your Auth - with Bereket, founder of Better Auth

​Most developers don't want to build auth from scratch — they want to own it.

​There's a big difference. Managed auth services get you moving fast, but you're handing over your user data, locking into their pricing, and giving up visibility into what's actually happening under the hood.

​Better Auth flips that model. It's a free, open source authentication framework — MIT licensed, TypeScript-first, framework-agnostic — that runs self-hosted on your own database.

​You get full ownership of your auth layer, with none of the black box.

​Bereket Engida (Founder, Better Auth), Paul Bratslavsky, and Boaz from Strapi are teaming up to make the case — walking through the real tradeoffs, where managed services fall short, and how Better Auth changes the equation.

​What we'll cover:

• ​🔐 The Case for Owning Your Auth — why control, portability, and open source matter more than ever

• ​🤖 Agent Auth Protocol — why the runtime agent deserves to be a first-class principal, and what that looks like in practice

• ​🛠️ Live Demo — a working Strapi + Better Auth integration via the community plugin with Boaz

​Framework-agnostic, Better Auth is the focus — built for developers who want auth that's fully theirs. Strapi makes a cameo as one practical way to put it all together.

​⏱ ~60 minutes    📅 May 7th — 8am PST