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Splitting out your first service

Splitting out your first service

From the course: Software Architecture: Breaking a Monolith into Microservices

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Splitting out your first service

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- The authentication capability is the perfect service to move out, and you're now on the drawing board to provide guidance to the developers that will lead to implement it. First, we have to have a closer look at the functionality provided by the user controller in our monolith. And there are a few actions that we didn't show before but are related to authentication. First there authenticate action of course. This is needed to do the authentication with username and password. But there's also the profile management that we need to look into. When a user creates a new profile, they also provide their username which is the email address and the password. So this needs to somehow be connected to the service which should own all the data related to authentication in the future. Also, profiles can be updated and along with the user information, the email and the password can be changed as well. Additionally, profiles can…

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