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Authentication Service or Library


If you are building a new project from scratch, especiallymicroservice-based, what authentication service or library will you use or recommend to use? And what are their advantages and disadvantages, especially disadvantages?

  👤 tony-allan Accepted Answer ✓
Authentication for serious projects must be battle tested and supported by a great well funded team.

I prefer a service over library because it is easier to constantly upgrade a service behind the scenes without having to update your own application dependancies.

To a large extent it depends on your environment. For example, for an AWS based app, I would Cognito.