No Ticket, No Entry: Securing Spring Boot with JWTs
Spring Boot JWT authentication is the default way most teams secure a REST API today. Instead of keeping a session in server memory, the client carries a signed JSON Web Token on every request, and the server verifies it. No session table, no sticky load balancing, no “which node has my session?” — which is exactly why it fits SPAs, mobile apps, and microservices. Let’s wire it up properly, and talk about the parts that bite you later. ...