August 2014
Intermediate to advanced
280 pages
7h 19m
English
CHAPTER 6
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Securing the Service
Ah, security. You knew we’d get here eventually. Security is one of those areas in the architecture that can become wildly complex before you know it. People are counting on you to get it right, with no margin for error. Lawsuits happen and companies end up on the front page, or completely go under, when security is implemented poorly. You simply can’t afford to mess it up!
Fortunately, because we are dealing with a RESTful service that is anchored on HTTP, we can leverage widely-used security mechanisms (some of which have been in place for years) for the more complicated and risky parts of the security architecture. ...