That was a whole lot of chewing for very little meat. If this article were a tweet, it could've been "use cookies instead of JWT's bc is if all you need is a UU

That was a whole lot of chewing for very little meat. If this article were a tweet, it could've been "use cookies instead of JWT's bc is if all you need is a UUID for a database lookup cookies work just fine, and are prob encrypted using symmetric encryption just like JWTs." Respect to the author for trying to generate some content for the company blog, but the end result ultimately comes down to a relatively trivial decision in order to save a few bytes.