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- Application developers and architects
- System and security administrators
- Security program managers
- Information system security officers
Microservices Architecture Pattern
Release Date: 08/31/2021
Working Group: Application Containers and Microservices
- The difference between architectures and solutions
- What Microservices Architecture Patterns (MAPs) are
- The components of several MAPs: offload, route, aggregation, cache, proxy, authN, authZ, facade, strangler fig, circuit breaker, and adapter patterns
- What security control overlays are
- The components of several overlays: service, IAM, network, monitoring, cryptologic, and microservice availability and resiliency overlays
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