Build vs. Buy: Roll Your Own Auth vs. Embed a Pre-built Identity Layer into Your
Every team building a new web or mobile application faces a choice: build the entire application in-house or selectively use out-of-the-box services to make the job easier and faster. Many of today’s successful teams have chosen the latter with services like Stripe and Braintree to offload payments and Twilio to offload communications.
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This whitepaper weighs up the options, asking:
- What are the unique challenges of identity and access management?
- Is the time and cost of building in-house really worth it?
- How can you balance UX with compliance and scalability?