Flipping the script: McDonald’s modular auth architecture journey
McDonald’s evolution to a modular auth architecture is optimizing and centralizing our approach to authentication and authorization.
In today’s interconnected digital landscape, security stands as a paramount concern for software developers and system architects, alike. With the proliferation of user interfaces (UIs) and the adoption of microservice architectures, ensuring robust authentication and authorization mechanisms has become critical.
Authentication verifies the identity of users or services attempting to access a system. It ensures that only legitimate users gain entry, safeguarding against unauthorized access and potential security breaches.
Authorization, on the other hand, determines the permissions and privileges granted to authenticated users or services. It governs what actions users are allowed to perform within the system, enforcing access control policies and protecting sensitive resources from unauthorized use or modification.
In this blog post, we’ll dive into how McDonald’s empowers secure communication among its internal microservices and micro-front-end applications through a centralized, custom authentication-and-authorization model as part of its transformation journey.
