#01 Microservices — the hard parts

Securing Microservices

A delicate balancing act

vjay baskr
2 min readDec 12, 2022
Securing microservices: Is it a battle or a siege ?!

Hello fellow technologists 👋

I would like to invite you to check out the very first visual notes from Microservices — the hard parts series.

There are many hard nuts to crack while adopting this architecture style and one of the hardest one is securing it.

It is a delicate balancing act that calls for multiple trade-offs to be made before securing an application from a gamut of attack vectors.

While there is a rich collection of technical documents, best practices, policies, processes, tools and technologies to adopt, I attempt to provide a perspective that might enable you to see the whole picture and get an insight that enables you decide when and where to deep dive.

So here we go …

Securing an application is a delicate balancing act!
There are so many areas to protect! Where do we start off ?!

In the next part we dive a bit deeper to understand security principles and how they apply to Microservices based applications.

If you have any feedback or comments feel free to share!

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vjay baskr

A Designer and Technical Architect serving as a bridge between design and engineering in digital space