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Store role permissions as a single integer in your JWT payload. The permission check becomes one CPU instruction with no database call, no Redis lookup, and a token that is 72% smaller.
Most auth tutorials force you to pick JWTs or sessions. Here is why that framing is wrong, and how the hybrid approach gives you the performance of JWTs with the revocation control of sessions.
