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Microservice Patterns and Best Practices

You're reading from   Microservice Patterns and Best Practices Explore patterns like CQRS and event sourcing to create scalable, maintainable, and testable microservices

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788474030
Length 366 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Vinicius Feitosa Pacheco Vinicius Feitosa Pacheco
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Preface 1. Understanding the Microservices Concepts 2. The Microservice Tools FREE CHAPTER 3. Internal Patterns 4. Microservice Ecosystem 5. Shared Data Microservice Design Pattern 6. Aggregator Microservice Design Pattern 7. Proxy Microservice Design Pattern 8. Chained Microservice Design Pattern 9. Branch Microservice Design Pattern 10. Asynchronous Messaging Microservice 11. Microservices Working Together 12. Testing Microservices 13. Monitoring Security and Deployment 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

Security

There are several ways to attack an application. Understanding how to protect microservices is paramount to not having the credibility of the software destroyed in seconds.

Understanding JWT

When we are working with APIs, we need to think about the security of data traffic and especially the level of permission that each user should have. There are many ways to do this, but the one that currently stands out is JWT (JSON Web Token), mainly because it is safe and easy to implement.

JWT is a data transfer system that can be sent via URL, POST, or in an HTTP header. This information is digitally signed, for example, signed with the HMAC algorithm or public/private keys using the RSA algorithm.

The structure of the JWT...

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