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What are some scalable OAuth and OpenID server implementations?

5th December 2010

My answer to What are some scalable OAuth and OpenID server implementations? on Quora

Any OAuth library should scale horizontally—I can’t see how any one library would be a better choice than another.

Posted 5th December 2010 at 6:34 pm · Follow me on Mastodon, Bluesky, Twitter or subscribe to my newsletter

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