1 Microservices security landscape

This chapter covers

  • Why microservices security is challenging
  • Principles and key elements of a microservices security design
  • Edge security and the role of an API gateway
  • Patterns and practices in securing service-to-service communications

Fail fast, fail often is a mantra in Silicon Valley. Not everyone agrees, but we love it! It’s an invitation to experiment with new things, accept failures, fix problems, and try again. Not everything in ink looks pretty in practice. Fail fast, fail often is only hype unless the organizational leadership, the culture, and the technology are present and thriving.

We find microservices to be a key enabler for fail fast, fail often. Microservices architecture has gone beyond ...

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