Now that we have updated our database to support the .NET Core Identity authentication workflow and patterns, we should choose which authentication method to implement.

As we most certainly know, the HTTP protocol is stateless, meaning that whatever we do during a request/response cycle will be lost before the subsequent request, including the authentication result. The only way we have to overcome this is to store that result somewhere, along with all its relevant data, such as user ID, login date/time, and last request time.