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Stateless Services: The State Is Out There

Stateless services are da bomb right? They are easy to scale (since they have no state, you can deploy as many as you like), they are easy to reuse (no state, no baggage), and what not.
The only problem with that is that the state doesn't really go away. Stateless services just suffer from NIMBYism ("Not in my back yard") when it comes to state. A stateless service needs to be stateful when it performs it action and since the state is not there, it has to get it from somewhere.

May 17, 2008
URL:http://www.drdobbs.com/architecture-and-design/stateless-services-the-state-is-out-ther/228700355