Posts tagged: policy-engine

What Stripe Radar Teaches About Money-as-Code — A Security Engineer's Translation

What Stripe Radar rules can teach security engineers about explicit payment controls, and where the analogy to OPA/Rego stops.

Why I Replaced 200 Lines of Babashka with 35 Lines of Rego

How declarative IAM validation using OPA/Rego replaced imperative Clojure security checks — and why functional programmers already understand policy engines.

Money is More Than a Database Row — Security Lessons from Financial Systems

A security-focused explanation of why financial systems need authorization, auditability, and controlled state transitions in addition to database storage.

Your Idea Already Exists — It's Called "Logic Programming for Security"

Why functional programmers are naturally drawn to security policy engines — and how declarative policy ideas are used in modern infrastructure.

The Missing Link: Why Clojure Developers Should Care About Policy Engines

How functional programming meets infrastructure security — and how Clojure skills can transfer to policy-as-code work.