The enterprise architect's guide to application state management | TechTarget (2024)

• Article Achieve application state management in microservices designsDiscover the how-tos for managing state in microservices applications, and then evaluate prevalent front-end and back-end state management approaches.Read Now
• Article How to control state for so-called stateless microservicesHow do you control state in a stateless microservices environment? Front-end and back-end state control can be two viable approaches, and one requires less work than the other.Read Now
• Article 3 serverless development strategies for stateful applicationsServerless developers can connect stateless functions to state information in several ways, without introducing debilitating latency to the application design.Read Now
• ArticleChallenge your wits on stateful and stateless conceptsIt's essential to understand the differences between stateful and stateless application characteristics, especially as distributed architectures grow in popularity. Test your knowledge on state concepts with this quiz.Read Now

1Managing and controlling state

Application state management involves dozens of different strategies and systems. For instance, how do you manage state for cloud-based applications? How do you fine-tune state control for distributed microservices architectures? And how can you get a handle on the intricacies of front-end and back-end state control?

This section takes a look at some of the most pressing state management issues today -- particularly when it comes to new architecture styles -- and strategies you can use to tackle them.

• Article Achieve application state management in microservices designsDiscover the how-tos for managing state in microservices applications, and then evaluate prevalent front-end and back-end state management approaches.Read Now
• Article Four options to manage stateful apps in the cloudStateful applications in the cloud pose an ongoing challenge for development and operations teams. Review four ways to address those issues and keep your apps running smoothly.Read Now
• Article How to control state for so-called stateless microservicesHow do you control state in a stateless microservices environment? Front-end and back-end state control can be two viable approaches, and one requires less work than the other.Read Now

2Learn the fundamentals about statefulness and statelessness

When it comes to application state management, it can be troublesome to understand how to deal with an application component that is supposed to be inherently stateless. However, it isn't always easy to understand exactly how a stateless service behaves compared to a stateful service, or how to appropriately manage them

This section examines the intricacies of stateless behavior, including why stateless behavior should not be conflated with immutability and the development implications surrounding stateless microservices.

• ArticleChallenge your wits on stateful and stateless conceptsIt's essential to understand the differences between stateful and stateless application characteristics, especially as distributed architectures grow in popularity. Test your knowledge on state concepts with this quiz.Read Now
• Article The key differences between stateless and stateful microservicesNot all services are the same. Learn about the fundamental differences between a stateful and a stateless microservice and the appropriate scenarios for each. Read Now
• Article Pick up stateless software precepts for modern app designChange and state are complex interrelated concepts that shape how an application performs its tasks. Learn the meaning of state, mutability and change as they relate to app design.Read Now

3Advantageous state-centric use cases and examples

There is no limit to the complexity that state-related issues can bring upon a project. That's what makes it so important to understand how state control works in action and how teams can inventively use state control to their project's advantage.

This section lays out some fundamental lessons to learn when it comes to state, such as how service brokers can act as a powerful mechanism to manage state control practices, how complex event processing can ease state management for distributed services, and some strategic ways to manage state in serverless architectures.

• Article How to create a stateful application with service brokers, DTPComplex state control issues come with the territory of stateful application design. Learn useful concepts that manipulate state and enable a stateful app to work as envisioned.Read Now
• Article 3 serverless development strategies for stateful applicationsServerless developers can connect stateless functions to state information in several ways, without introducing debilitating latency to the application design.Read Now
• Article Use event processing to achieve microservices state managementWhat good are stateless microservices for stateful processing? Bring complex event processing into the mix to manage microservices state through scaling and failures. Here's how.Read Now

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