Analyzing the Thoughts Backend microservice

Let's remember the diagram of microservices that we created in the last chapter:

The diagram shows the different elements for our example system: the two backends, users and thoughts, and HTML frontend.

Thoughts Backend will be responsible for storing new thoughts, retrieving the existing ones, and searching the database.

Understanding the security layer

As the Thoughts Backend is going to be available externally, we need to implement a security layer. That means we need to identify the user producing the actions and verify their validity. For this service example, we will create a new thought from the logged in user, and we will retrieve my thoughts, thoughts created by the...