Extracting Authentication to a Microservice

<blockquote> <p><em>JWT tutorials only teach the easy part. Here's what happens after.</em></p> </blockquote> <p>Most auth tutorials end at "user logs in, gets a token, done." And

<p>Most apps think they are secure because they have login pages.</p> <p>But authentication is only the first step.</p> <p>Once a user is logged in, your app still needs to answer

<p>A member and a staff coordinator can belong to the same organization, use the same login system, and need very different access. That difference becomes easy to lose when a

<p>There is a moment in security design when a single observation changes everything. NanoClaw 2.0 shipped recently with a capability that stops most developers cold: a gateway

<p>Authentication is often presented as a short sequence:</p> <ol> <li>Accept a username and password.</li> <li>Return a JWT.</li> <li>Protect a few endpoints.</li> </ol> <p>That

<h2> Introduction </h2> <p>In modern application development, securing user authentication is a foundational requirement. As systems scale and threats become more sophisticated,

<h2> The Next Step </h2> <p>In <a href="https://dev.to/writing/building-an-authentication-service/">Extracting Authentication to a Microservice</a>, I described building a

<h2> <strong>Subtitle: How every request crossing the LocalHands API gets authenticated and role-checked before it touches any business logic.</strong> </h2> <p><strong>1. The