In software development, the term microservices refers to many independent services communicating with each other over an API. In a microservice architecture, these services must exchange information in order to perform complex tasks, and each communication is a point of vulnerability, and potential latency.
This Spring Boot tutorial screencast demonstrates many of the critical functions how microservices communicate with each other, including how microservice architectures use tokens:
The Basics of Microservices in Spring Boot, Using JSON Web Tokens (or JWTs)
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