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Comment by akira2501

> I want to create a session token that I _never_ want to revalidate against a database

There's the middle ground as well with a long lived authentication or refresh token and a short lived authorization token.

> I want to include role (or other) information directly in the token for the sake of convenience

Once I started seriously developing cloud solutions, this became indispensable. It's not just convenient, it directly reduces expenses.

parent akira2501 3 years ago

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