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How do you design a horizontally scalable session management system?

Updated May 6, 2026

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Session management uses external stores like Redis or stateless JWT-based authentication.

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Instead of storing sessions in memory, distributed systems store session data in Redis or use JWT tokens to make services stateless. Sticky sessions are avoided in large-scale systems.

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