Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. - Arthur C. Clarke
If you're attending conferences, listening to podcasts, reading forums, or you are involved in any other form of a debate related to containers and cloud-native applications, you must have heard the mantra stateless services. It's almost like a cult. Only stateless services are worthy. Everything else is heresy. The solution to any problem is to remove the state. How do we scale this application? Make it stateless. How do we put this into a container? Make it stateless. How do we make it fault tolerant? Make it stateless. No matter the problem, the solution is to be stateless.
Are all the services we used until now stateless? They're not. Therefore, the logic dictates, we did not yet solve all the...