Lessons from Failed DocuSign Integration

There is a lot that I missed from when computers were firmly in the obscure nerd category days, but I’ve spent my life solving problems that seem interesting with a computer. I took enough programming classes in school to know there were a lot of options when it came to building tools that computers could read, but I always found myself building tools with pre-existing software because I saw myself as a consumer and that true programmers were on a plane of existence beyond my own. It became quickly apparent that all of the niceties of the contract annotation process justified the use of an external service (we’ve tried to build as much as we can as to skip dependencies, I’ve spent enough time in rails to appreciate debugging owned code – an argument for another time…). Someone on the team noticed that if you refresh the page, you get logged in as the user that was making the API request.

Source: profsmallpine.com