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In this post, we will do a brief introduction to what is JWT, or JSON Web Tokens. According to open standard RFC 7519, JWT is “a compact, URL-safe means of representing claims to be transferred between two parties”. The idea behind JWT is that a token can be created by a system, and that token can be verified to be true and unchanged by a 3rd party system. This means the … Continue reading What is JWT JSON Web Token?
In the past, with cloud computing, if an organization was deploying and scaling an application, they would provision a server or servers and deploy the app. The more workload the app received, the more servers could be provisioned to distribute the workload. This model worked, and still works, very well in terms of scaling apps. However, there were disadvantages with doing this. Depending on your app, provisioning an entire server … Continue reading Introduction to Serverless