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I don't think everyone assumes they're going to be Facebook, but they probably do assume (correctly not my opinion) that scaling session management up is a painful, and are doing their best to avoid it.

Consider it a teaching moment and show folks how simple it is to store all your session-like stuff in cookies, along with a timeout and a version hashed with the server's secret.




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