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Giuseppe Di Federico
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Giuseppe Di Federico started working for Microsoft in 2011, with previous experience working for IBM and Accenture in software development. He became an architect for cloud and hybrid solutions, serving customers in more than 10 countries across EMEA. He had the opportunity to lead multicultural teams, visit many multinational customers, and learn about different cultures, mindsets, and assets, which enabled him to also appreciate how organizations' structures impact their results. During his experience, he has been able to appreciate many identity patterns designed to last, to be reliable and secure. In June 2022, he accepted the challenge to join a new leading-edge team for the greatest service company in Italy.
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Fabrizio Barcaroli (born in 1987) started his career as a consultant in Italy after obtaining a master's degree in computer science in 2012. In 2013, Fabrizio joined Microsoft as part of the Microsoft Consulting Services unit, where he developed his technical skills and helped customers achieve their business goals through the usage of Microsoft technologies. With the rise of the cloud era, Fabrizio specialized in cloud and identity solutions, and in 2020, he became a cloud solution architect, a technical advisor that helps close the gap between business needs and Microsoft technologies for big enterprises operating in the manufacturing, finance, and retail markets in Italy and across the globe.
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The application frontend API flow

The application frontend API is the logical layer that hosts the APIs that are supposed to be consumed by the application’s client. The flow is an extension of the single-page authentication pattern described in the previous chapter.

The following diagram outlines the subset of interactions reported in the previous diagram that involves this layer (the application frontend API).

Figure 6.2 – Zooming in on the application frontend API

The frontend acts as a broker to send the request to a backend component synchronously or asynchronously, according to the application’s design and the architectural pattern chosen.

The flow considered in such a diagram is composed of the following steps:

  1. The user connects to the API, which we can assume is available on the internet. We can also assume that the user is using a SPA and the authentication flow represented by the line that connects the user to the...
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Giuseppe Di Federico

Giuseppe Di Federico started working for Microsoft in 2011, with previous experience working for IBM and Accenture in software development. He became an architect for cloud and hybrid solutions, serving customers in more than 10 countries across EMEA. He had the opportunity to lead multicultural teams, visit many multinational customers, and learn about different cultures, mindsets, and assets, which enabled him to also appreciate how organizations' structures impact their results. During his experience, he has been able to appreciate many identity patterns designed to last, to be reliable and secure. In June 2022, he accepted the challenge to join a new leading-edge team for the greatest service company in Italy.
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Fabrizio Barcaroli

Fabrizio Barcaroli (born in 1987) started his career as a consultant in Italy after obtaining a master's degree in computer science in 2012. In 2013, Fabrizio joined Microsoft as part of the Microsoft Consulting Services unit, where he developed his technical skills and helped customers achieve their business goals through the usage of Microsoft technologies. With the rise of the cloud era, Fabrizio specialized in cloud and identity solutions, and in 2020, he became a cloud solution architect, a technical advisor that helps close the gap between business needs and Microsoft technologies for big enterprises operating in the manufacturing, finance, and retail markets in Italy and across the globe.
Read more about Fabrizio Barcaroli