My talk on JSON Web Tokens at DjangoCon US 2014

I had a great time at DjangoCon US 2014. Lots of first times. First time at DjangoCon First time speaking at DjangoCon First time speaking in front of “large” crowd. First time visiting the west coast First time visiting Portland Special thanks to Blimp for enabling me to do this. Thanks to the DSF’s grant which… Continue reading My talk on JSON Web Tokens at DjangoCon US 2014

Auth with JSON Web Tokens

When it comes to implementing authentication on web apps, one solution you’ll definitely hear about first are cookies. Cookie-based authentication uses a server side cookies to authenticate the user on every request. This means that you’ll need to keep a session store, whether it’s on a database or on something like Redis. A solution you’ll… Continue reading Auth with JSON Web Tokens