Authentication Fundamentals: Sessions, Cookies, Tokens, and Account Recovery

A practical two-hour session on Authentication Fundamentals, focused on Sessions, Cookies, Tokens, and Account Recovery. Attendees work through concrete engineering tradeoffs, review examples, and leave with a checklist they can apply in real team projects.

Audience: entry-level and intermediate developers who want a practical engineering session, not a language tour.

Outcomes:

• Explain the practical boundaries of Authentication Fundamentals
• Apply Sessions in a small working example
• Apply Cookies in a small working example
• Apply Tokens in a small working example

Format: two hours with a short framing walkthrough, a concrete example, discussion of tradeoffs, and a closing checklist for practice.