Authentication Foundations for Trillion-Request Scale: Cookie, Session, JWT, OAuth2.1, and SSO – Complete Guide and Practical Implementation
This comprehensive guide explains why authentication is the traffic, permission, and trust entry point in modern high‑concurrency systems, compares Cookie, Session, JWT, OAuth2.1 and SSO, and provides detailed architectural patterns, trade‑offs, implementation steps, and production‑grade best practices for building secure, scalable identity solutions.
