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SerDe: The Unsung Hero of Microservices Architecture

August 28, 2024 by Rana Ahsan Leave a Comment

Imagine a bustling city where thousands of cars rely on a well-functioning traffic management system to navigate smoothly. If even a minor glitch occurs in this system, the entire city can grind to a halt. SerDe, or Serialization/Deserialization, plays a similar critical role in microservices. Think of it as the traffic management system that ensures data flows efficiently … [Read more...] about SerDe: The Unsung Hero of Microservices Architecture

Building Auth With JWT – Part 2

December 9, 2022 by Rana Ahsan Leave a Comment

This is the follow-up to part 1 of the Auth With JWT story. I would highly recommend you go over that first if you haven't already done so before going over this article. That being said, in this part 2, we will talk about the following three high-level sections:So, without further ado, let's dive in!Challenges:JWT Payload Size:As you might have read in the … [Read more...] about Building Auth With JWT – Part 2

Building Auth With JWT – Part 1

March 30, 2020 by Rana Ahsan 1 Comment

TLDR; JWT(JSON Web Token) can be a very easy yet effective way to build an auth platform(authentication and authorization).In one of my past employments, I was fortunate enough to be part of an interesting yet technically challenging project, that aimed to solve the auth problem(authentication+authorization) in a distributed service-oriented architecture(I am referring to … [Read more...] about Building Auth With JWT – Part 1