Microservices with Clojure

Introducing Tokens and JWT

In a monolithic environment, authentication and authorization are handled within the same application using a module that validates the incoming requests for required authentication and authorization information, as shown in the following diagram; this module also allows the authorized users to define the roles and permissions and assign them to other users in the system to allow them access to the secured resources:

Monolithic applications may also maintain a session store against which each instance of the monolithic application can validate the incoming request and determine a valid session for the user. Often, ...