Securing Microservices with Bearer Tokens
Security is one of the most important and tedious aspects of any application. We need to ensure that our application is built using secure code and always pursue the most effective ways to reduce intrusions and loopholes in our systems. Despite this, however, security also comes at the cost of usability, and we should always seek to find a balance between the two.
Basic application security begins with a login system. We should be able to allow a user to register themselves in a system and store some identifying information accordingly. When the user returns and wishes to access certain parts of the application, we will query the database and verify the identity of the user through their identifying information and decide to grant or restrict access accordingly.
In modern applications, we find it increasingly difficult to maintain a data store as an authority on all our users, while accounting for all the possible channels through which...
