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Centralize Authentication With OAuth
- OAuth lets you outsource authentication and get temporary tokens that other parts of your app can trust.
- Centralizing auth decisions at an authorization server reduces the burden on individual services.
OpenID Connect Enables Interop
- OIDC is a standardized layer for identity built on OAuth ideas that enables interoperable providers.
- When implemented per spec, OIDC providers and libraries tend to interoperate without bespoke tweaks.
Use Libraries, Inspect With Curl
- Use well-supported libraries for clients and avoid implementing OAuth yourself for production.
- Run through grant flows with curl to learn internals, but rely on libraries in production.