Re:Show HN: OAuth microservice for FB, Twitter, etc.
by aisofteng on Tuesday July 04, 2017 @09:00PM
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"Stateless authentication microservice" has only one possible meaning to me. Did you want to ask something more specific, or do you just not know what those (common) words mean?
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Re:Show HN: OAuth microservice for FB, Twitter, etc.
by Sujan on Wednesday July 05, 2017 @03:44AM
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The me it means... nothing specific.
It tells me that is has something to do with login, "without state" (whatever this means in this context) and that it is somehow not a "big service" but very "micro", so probably independent. Stateless and microservice can mean so many things.
Re:Show HN: OAuth microservice for FB, Twitter, etc.
by aisofteng on Wednesday July 05, 2017 @08:17AM
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Those words have one meaning each.
A microservice is a service that does only one thing, and does it simply.
Something stateless doesn't keep state - after an interaction with a client, nothing has changed in the service itself.
A stateless authentication microservice is something I would expect to run, listen on a port for some sort of authentication credentials, and return either some sort of authorizarion token or an authentication error.
I don't see where the confusion comes from.