Yeah, I agree this is reasonable. But there’s a difference between creating an alt account for experimentation vs throwing games to get to or to maintain a lower rank. My feeling is that “smurf” typically implies the latter.

When I’ve done this it’s generally done with JWTs where each micro service is configured with a trusted public key that is used to authenticate the JWT. The JWT can be sent to the client when they log in, and used to authenticate all API requests (forwarding the JWT as necessary for service-to-service requests). It’s also possible to have a gateway mint JWTs after using some other means to authenticate client requests.

Sometimes service-to-service requests don’t have a client request in context to pull a JWT from. In those cases you need another authentication mechanism, like a different signed token, or a shared secret.

This is lots of good detail! Thanks!

Looks very nice! I haven’t done any bike building, But I’ve recently been inspired to learn. Do you mind if I ask, what kind of constraints do you encounter using a vintage frame? Was that a factor in choosing rim brakes? It looks like you have a nice, original fork; but if one were to replace a fork, has head tube design changed over time?

It’s a gang. The white house has been making up stories that people they arrest are dangerous gang members, notably including Kilmar Ábrego García.