Migrating Applications to the Cloud with Azure
by Sjoukje Zaal, Amit Malik, Sander Rossel, Jason Marston, Mohamed Waly, Stefano Demiliani
Stateless services
Stateless services are currently the norm in cloud applications. A service is considered stateless when it doesn't contain data that needs to be stored reliably or has to be made highly available. When an instance of a stateless services shuts down, the state and all internal data are released and lost. So, any state that is present is entirely disposable and doesn't require synchronization, replication, persistence, or high availability.
A common example of how stateless services are used in Azure Service Fabric is a frontend that exposes a public-facing API for a web application. The stateless frontend service will then pass on the request to the stateful services, which will then complete the request. In this example, ...
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