https://blog.maartenballiauw.be/posts/2026-06-11-what-is-identityserver-and-when-do-you-need-it/

[giscus[bot]]

https://blog.maartenballiauw.be/posts/2026-06-11-what-is-identityserver-and-when-do-you-need-it/

Earlier this week at Duende Software, we had a prospect reach out that wanted to implement IdentityServer in their solution. Their application consisted of one ASP.NET Core application with local users, no mobile applications or other clients, no API surface, and no plans in the roadmap to move towards an architecture with any of these. All they wanted was to add external authentication to Google.

https://blog.maartenballiauw.be/posts/2026-06-11-what-is-identityserver-and-when-do-you-need-it/

[cocowalla]

Nice to see you blogging again!

[maartenba]

Yeah it's been way too long!