In the previous post we saw a way for handling authentication using an API Gateway and an Identity Provider. Just to refresh the concept, here’s the basic diagram: </figure> The Client will call the API Gateway, which will ask the Identity Provider to (ehm) provide the user details. The Client...
2019, Apr 11 — 2 minute read
In the last few weeks I’ve started working mainly on a quite important part of the system: adding authentication and authorization to some of the microservices that compose the whole application. For those who don’t know, I work for a quite well know Company on the internal sales tools. In...
2019, Apr 04 — 3 minute read
This time let’s talk a bit about the difference between serial and parallel task execution. The idea is simple: if we have two or more operations depending one from another (eg. the result of one goes as input into another), then we need to run them in serial, one after...
2019, Feb 13 — 2 minute read
Are there any cases when it doesn’t really matter how your data is structured, as long as you’re fulfilling the task at hand? Or is it always important to use the perfect data structure for the job? Let’s find out! Those collections have quite different purposes and use cases. Specifically,...
2019, Feb 11 — 3 minute read