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excerpt: James Q Quick is an expert on all things Jamstack and authentication, we were able to sit down and chat about Auth0 and his past experiences.
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start: June 30, 2021
title: Unlocking the Jamstack with Auth0
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## Questions

1. What is Auth0?
2. How does it fit in the Jamstack?
3. Is it too expensive if you scale?
   - Auth0 is 7K active users and unlimited logins.
4. The latest Auth0 NodeJS SDK was just released, do you see this as a game changer?
5. How do you integrate this with with something like Firebase, Fauna, AWS AppSync?
6. What is the difference between AuthN and AuthZ and what does Auth0 handle?
