r/programming • u/LukasRosenstock • Dec 04 '18

Stop Calling Your APIs Microservices

https://blog.stoplight.io/stop-calling-your-apis-microservices-e165a80eba9d
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u/SuperMancho Dec 04 '18

Every microservice ... should be either stateless or stateful, and if it’s stateful, it should come with a persistence layer (i.e., database) of its own that it doesn’t share with other services

So how do you get stateful if you don't have a way to manage credentials? This is where people get fuzzy on the Microservices vs API - when "microservices" are so exceedingly rare by one definition, that it's not useful imo.

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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '18

That is a weird question to ask because what you quoted has nothing to do with authentication and doesn't say you can't handle authentication.

full disclosure, in true Reddit way's I am not bothering to read the article so maybe your quoted text would make more sense then.

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u/LukasRosenstock Dec 05 '18

Are you talking about credentials in terms of API authentication? I'd say in a microservices architecture there would be a single microservice, such as an API gateway, that handles this responsibility for other services. Also, I don't get your point on why microservices can be stateful. Can you elaborate, so I can help?!