A correct JWT verifier does eight things. Most production verifiers I have read do four or five of them. The other three or four get skipped because the library defaults aren't loud about them, the docs gloss over them, or someone copied a "it works" snippet from Stack Overflow circa 2018. Here is the full eight-check list, what each one prevents, and what it looks like to implement them with stru
The on-call alert at 02:14 said auth_5xx_rate spiked from 0.01 to 31.4. Not a deploy window. Not a traffic spike. Just thirty-one percent of authenticated requests failing for ~four minutes, then back to baseline. The cause was a JWKS rotation on the issuer side. New keys came in. Old keys went out. Caches in our service didn't refresh fast enough. Tokens signed with the new key were rejected beca
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