With Micro services and JWT that has an API gateway, is it best practice to pass the JWT token to the child services? Or is it better to let the gateway handle the JWT and pass the information from the token to the child service as need. For example, if we have a customer id in our JWT token, is it…

The answer depends a lot on the architecture being used, on whether one service is expected to call other services, and if that call will be on behalf of the user or not… For example, a user may have a mail:send scope in his JWT, and uses it to call an email service. The email service, in turn, cal…

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