March 2020
Intermediate to advanced
392 pages
10h 10m
English
Microservices typically do not use a shared session model for authentication, which is a prevalent model for monoliths. Whichever model you are currently using, your microservices, as well as your monolith, need to interact with it. A very common and often used standard is called JSON Web Token (JWT); it allows microservices to authenticate requests.
You will need to modify your monolith to be able to communicate with microservices. There are more ways than just JWTs but because of their benefits and their popularity, I would recommend you use them. In essence, the following are the characteristics of JWTs:
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