The authentication callback is protecting access while making routine access feel unreliable.
A shorter entitlement path protects developer time, while a short cache lifetime protects correct access decisions.
Who you’d be doing this for
“The standup starts, and I’m still explaining why people are waiting at the login screen.”
Araba Darko · Network Security Administrator
Operates access policies for a distributed engineering organization using the protected internal portal.
What is at stake
Authentication callbacks reach 2.8 seconds during the morning peak. You must weigh a fast Workers KV cache against the access risk of stale entitlements.
Why it isn’t already fixed
Every obvious fix costs something else. That’s the part you’d have to decide.
- sign-in speed vs entitlement freshness
- edge caching vs origin ownership
- small release scope vs reusable pattern
Why Cloudflare
Workers and Workers KV let protected application flows move entitlement work away from a slow origin without changing the customer’s application.
Written with these in mind
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This is the setup. The work is inside.
Running it puts you in the room: the full situation and its constraints, stakeholders who push back in their own words, and the decisions that are yours to make. What you produce becomes a Day One Plan — work you can show someone instead of describing.