Understanding User Authentication from Scratch

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  • The main con is that this is a stateful approach. Verifying a session token requires us to do a database lookup. Some platforms like Vercel have solutions like Next.js API Routes which boast that they can be run globally at the edge - meaning as close to the user as possible. If you need to do a database lookup in a database in a fixed location, you can lose some of the latency advantages you gain by globally hosting.

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