Month: June 2020

  • Monthly notes 50

    Issue 50, 15.6.2020 Serverless AWS Lambda — should you have few monolithic functions or many single-purposed functions?Interesting question of if single responsibility principle (SRP) should be followed in the serverless world. What is a “function” if not SRP? TL;DR; many single-purposed functions are better. Stories Twitter search of “telling early-in-career engineers stories of times you…

  • Generating JWT and JWK for information exchange between services

    Generating JWT and JWK for information exchange between services

    Securely transmitting information between services and authorization can be achieved with using JSON Web Tokens. JWTs are an open, industry standard RFC 7519 method for representing claims securely between two parties. Here’s a short explanation and guide of what they are, their use and how to generate the needed things. “JSON Web Token (JWT) is…