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PHP Microservices

By : Pablo Solar Vilariño, Carlos Pérez Sánchez
Book Image

PHP Microservices

By: Pablo Solar Vilariño, Carlos Pérez Sánchez

Overview of this book

The world is moving away from bulky, unreliable, and high-maintenance PHP applications, to small, easy-to-maintain and highly available microservices and the pressing need is for PHP developers to understand the criticalities in building effective microservices that scale at large. This book will be a reliable resource, and one that will help you to develop your skills and teach you techniques for building reliable microservices in PHP. The book begins with an introduction to the world of microservices, and quickly shows you how to set up a development environment and build a basic platform using Docker and Vagrant. You will then get into the different design aspects to be considered while building microservices in your favorite framework and you will explore topics such as testing, securing, and deploying microservices. You will also understand how to migrate a monolithic application to the microservice architecture while keeping scalability and best practices in mind. Furthermore you will get into a few important DevOps techniques that will help you progress on to more complex domains such as native cloud development, as well as some interesting design patterns. By the end of this book you will be able to develop applications based on microservices in an organized and efficient way. You will also gain the knowledge to transform any monolithic applications into microservices.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
PHP Microservices
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
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Customer Feedback
Preface

Access Control List


This is a very common system in all applications regardless of their size. Access Control List (ACL) provides us with an easy way to manage and filter the permissions of every user. Let's look at this in a little more detail.

What is ACL?

The method that an application uses to identify every single user of the application is ACL. This is the system that informs the application what access rights or permissions a user or group of users have for a specific task or action.

Every task (function or action) has an attribute to identify which users can use it, and ACL is a list that links every task with every action, such as read, write, or execute.

ACL has the following two featured advantages for the applications that use it:

  • Management: Using ACL in our application allows us to add users to groups and manage the permissions for each group. Also, it is easier to add, modify, or remove permissions to many users or groups.  

  • Security: Having different permissions for each user...