Backend State Management

Discussions center on whether backends and apps require state management, exploring stateless alternatives, the nature of state (local vs. global, immutable), and strategies for handling it in web apps and APIs.

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ajb92 May 3, 2025 View on HN

Who says your backend needs to manage state?

tonetheman Sep 21, 2021 View on HN

What are the other options here then? Not trolling just wondering. If an app has state it has to be dealt with somewhere...

seanmcdirmid Apr 15, 2015 View on HN

Interesting. What's your plan for dealing with state?

sesm Sep 23, 2023 View on HN

What do you mean by ‘no state management’ and why is it a good thing?

andybak May 12, 2022 View on HN

Are you suggesting an alternative or arguing that we shouldn't be storing state at all?

anotherhue Aug 12, 2023 View on HN

This is a good one. Management and understanding of state vs. just shipping all the state.

flukus Mar 26, 2021 View on HN

It's not the state that's the problem, it's the state being bundled with the code that operates on the state.

whatnotests Oct 24, 2016 View on HN

State? Keeping a single source of truth which changes every 1/100th second while millions of users are doing something to change that state?

Fasebook May 1, 2014 View on HN

Pretty much, which basically gives state to stateless system..

0x3444ac53 Sep 12, 2024 View on HN

Would you mind explaining what you mean by stateless?