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Stateless vs stateful services in the cloud: why does it matter?

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#cloud#stateless#stateful#scalability
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Answer

Stateless services don’t keep user/session state in memory, which makes them easy to scale and replace. Stateful services keep local state, so scaling requires sticky sessions, shared storage, or careful replication. Stateless designs are generally more cloud‑friendly.

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