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If you're interested in our experience on starting on microservices from scratch with only 2 people, I gave a talk on it: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/queues-proxy-microservice...

I agree they're not for every team, but it definitely allowed us to move, grow and scale faster than other dev environments I've worked in.

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Great talk. This may be a silly question; however, how do you handle authentication between the main app and the services? Im in the middle of building a sizable application but have begun offloading some of the tasks to microservices, for many of the same reasons you gave. I currently use OAuth2 to authenticate to the main API, but dont really want to add additional overhead by having to authenticate to each service as its needed.

perhaps JSON Web tokens between main API and microservice where both have a shared secret?

Thanks, sounds really interesting. I'm bookmarking it for later (having a long day at work). Would love to hear how you achieved this with a smaller team.

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