What are reactive microservices?
There are certain fundamental attributes that a piece of software must possess in order to be considered reactive. These attributes are responsiveness, resilience, elasticity, autonomy and, above all, being message-driven.
What is message-level security?
Message-level security is the most fundamental method available if you wish to secure your individual request messages. After the initial authentication has been performed, the request message itself may contain the OAuth bearer token or the JWTs, based on the implementation. This way, each and every request is authenticated, and the information related to the user can be embedded within these tokens. The information could be as simple as a username along with an expiration timestamp indicating token validity. After all, we don't want to allow a token to be utilized beyond a certain...