Stop using JWT for sessions

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    A reverse proxy that provides authentication with Google, Azure, OpenID Connect and many more identity providers.

  • Yeah, we use oauth2 JWTs for sessions in a microservices setup at work. It's one of the few bits of the architecture that I have zero gripes about. It's way simpler and way less effort than a "proper" session store. It's completely transparent for our frontend as we just have oauth2 proxy sitting in the middle sticking the JWT into the authorization header.

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