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Security starts at the edge.

Have you used JWTs in production? Better to bounce a bad JWT with a server written in C/C++/Rust/Go at the edge than to pass it back and have it tie up a Python or Node process.

Even in Python the time to validate a small JWT is negligible. At the edge it's nearly imperceptible.



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