Up until recently, most technology architecture has been monolithic, with services and code contained within a single large and complex application. Now, we’re increasingly seeing architecture broken into autonomous units—or microservices—built for specific individual functions. Microservices increase the agility and scalability of an organisation by allowing distributed teams to work simultaneously on different elements of an application, improve system resilience by minimising points of failure and the interdependence between these elements, and speed deployment for developer teams working on changes or new features—which can be done one microservice at a time. The benefits of microservices are clear, but they also mean users are signing into dozens or even hundreds of applications instead of a single service. Often, these user identities exist in disparate directories, and profiles are often duplicated and contain conflicting data. In a monolithic system, the entire system is a process. It allows admins to identify a.