intermediateDistributed Systems Trade-offs

What is the difference between stateful and stateless architecture? Why do cloud-native designs prefer stateless?

Tests whether you know statelessness is what makes horizontal scaling and failover trivial instead of painful.

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What is the difference between stateful and stateless architecture? Why do cloud-native designs prefer stateless?

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