bugsmith to Programming@programming.dev • 11 months agoHow Standard Ebooks serves millions of requests per month with a 2GB VPSalexcabal.commessage-square39fedilinkarrow-up1118arrow-down15
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minus-square@adrian783@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink2•11 months agofor content sites, stateless is fine. for web apps you need states of all different kinds. even the smallest detail is a state in an application. endpoints themselves are stateless, but the web application is stateful. you only have to build the world once, and its much friendlier for end users.
minus-square@expr@programming.devlinkfedilink1•11 months agoI wasn’t talking about frontend state, just the server. Frontend state is kind of irrelevant, tbh.
for content sites, stateless is fine. for web apps you need states of all different kinds. even the smallest detail is a state in an application.
endpoints themselves are stateless, but the web application is stateful. you only have to build the world once, and its much friendlier for end users.
I wasn’t talking about frontend state, just the server. Frontend state is kind of irrelevant, tbh.