# Why we built Cerbos this way

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Welcome! The purpose of this section is to give some insight into how decisions were made when designing and building Cerbos, for the more _curious_ of our users.

- [Why Cerbos PDP runs as a separate process](https://docs.cerbos.dev/cerbos/prerelease/engineering/why_cerbos_runs_as_a_separate_process)