18AFFINITY AND DEVICES
The ideal application exhibits complete simplicity. It is simple to design. It is simple to develop. It is simple to deploy. Its individual components are stateless, so it’s easy to scale to serve as many users as needed. The individual service endpoints act as pure functions where the output is determined solely by the input. The application operates on a reasonable amount of data, with modest CPU and memory requirements, and requests and responses easily fit into a JSON structure that is at most a couple of kilobytes.
Of course, outside of tutorials, ideal applications don’t exist. Real-world applications store state, ...
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