Published on: April 2026
UNDERSTANDING AUTHENTICATION IN MICROSERVICES: COMPARING SESSION-BASED AND JWT
Abhirudh Singh
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This paper compares traditional session-based authentication approach with modern JWT-based authentication for web application. This paper describes the implementation of JWT-based authentication and the security issues related to the storage of JWT. The performance experiment of JWT-based authentication compared to the traditional session-based approach showed promising results: a reduction of 50% in average response time, from 185ms to 92ms.
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Singh, A. (2026). Understanding Authentication in Microservices: Comparing Session-Based and JWT. International Journal of Creative and Open Research in Engineering and Management, <i>02</i>(04). https://doi.org/10.55041/ijcope.v2i4.871
Singh, Abhirudh. "Understanding Authentication in Microservices: Comparing Session-Based and JWT." International Journal of Creative and Open Research in Engineering and Management, vol. 02, no. 04, 2026, pp. . doi:https://doi.org/10.55041/ijcope.v2i4.871.
Singh, Abhirudh. "Understanding Authentication in Microservices: Comparing Session-Based and JWT." International Journal of Creative and Open Research in Engineering and Management 02, no. 04 (2026). https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.55041/ijcope.v2i4.871.
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