intermediateSpring Cloud Gateway
Why does centralizing authentication validation at the Gateway make sense instead of every service validating it independently?
A Gateway filter can validate a JWT once, centrally, before a request ever reaches any backend service, instead of duplicating identical validation logic across every single downstream service — a cross-cutting concern handled once at the edge rather than N times.
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