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Michele Riva
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Michele Riva is a passionate and experienced Software Engineer and Google Developer Expert from Milan, Italy. During the last years, he has contributed to many open-source projects from big companies and foundations, such as Facebook and Apache, in many different programming languages and paradigms, including Haskell, Erlang, Go, and JavaScript. He has also written dozens of public domain articles on different topics (software architecture, functional programming, performance enhancements, etc.) and gave many talks at conferences and meetups. He is currently working as a Senior Software Engineer in the architecture team at ViacomCBS, where he is building a multi-tenant Node.js application at the heart of their websites and streaming services.
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In this chapter, we've seen how using a third-party authentication provider can save us from many issues when dealing with complex and sensitive topics such as private data management and user sessions.

So, the final question could be: when does it make sense to implement a custom authentication strategy? In my humble opinion, we should avoid writing custom authentication mechanisms in almost any scenario, unless we're working with an expert team capable of detecting security flaws and identifying vulnerabilities in the whole authentication flow.

There are many good alternatives to Auth0 (NextAuth.js, Firebase, AWS Cognito, and so on), and it is just too risky to replicate their battle-tested features.

If you're not comfortable working with external providers, you can also use any web framework and its built-in authentication strategies. For example, suppose you feel comfortable using Ruby on Rails, Laravel, or Spring Boot. In that case, these are all...

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Michele Riva

Michele Riva is a passionate and experienced Software Engineer and Google Developer Expert from Milan, Italy. During the last years, he has contributed to many open-source projects from big companies and foundations, such as Facebook and Apache, in many different programming languages and paradigms, including Haskell, Erlang, Go, and JavaScript. He has also written dozens of public domain articles on different topics (software architecture, functional programming, performance enhancements, etc.) and gave many talks at conferences and meetups. He is currently working as a Senior Software Engineer in the architecture team at ViacomCBS, where he is building a multi-tenant Node.js application at the heart of their websites and streaming services.
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