It’s a trade off dude. You trade off the ability to revoke a token instantly for fewer backend calls. For most parts of your site (99.9%) that trade off is

It’s a trade off dude. You trade off the ability to revoke a token instantly for fewer backend calls. For most parts of your site (99.9%) that trade off is fine. For the parts where it isn’t fine you... call the auth server every request. JWT doesn’t mean you give up anything....