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Sync user data between Clerk and a PlanetScale MySQL database

A common strategy of modern development, especially in serverless applications, is to offload user management to third-party authentication services, commonly referred to as Identity Providers (IdP). While this shifts the focus and responsibility of managing your users’ data to another organization, implementing this strategy brings several tradeoffs: You don’t have direct access to user data within your own systems. You can’t perform secondary actions when a user changes their data in some way.

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