Ory develops opinionated IAM software, that will allow the right amount of customization to adapt it to your use case, but will not allow you to by-pass security. It does not compromise on security. We started using Ory when Ory Network, the cloud solution, did not exist yet, and the open source self-hosting part was the main way. We use it since then, and the Ory stack has proven to be a solid part of our infrastructure.

Our team is looking for a highly customisable identity solutions to suit and support the advanced authentication use cases for our readers. We are also in the midst of modernising our legacy Java stack (EC2s) to Go. Ory auth being components-based and being fairly un-opinionated in terms of OAuth standards has helped the team to layer and build our custom business logic. Being open sourced, we are able to control the deployment of the images, API rate limits, domains and how we would like authentication to work. Ory Network will be better choice if you need a more out of box identity solution and you are a small team. For open source hosting, it's will be a lot more work unless your business requires very advanced and special use cases to support.

The entire platform is designed according to cloud-native principles. Performance is outstanding, and we can be confident that Ory will scale seamlessly as our user base grows. Consistent compliance with standards such as OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect Certified™ also gives us investment security. That's why I chose this platform for my start-up.