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state-in-REST.md

Why statelessness

visibility

Every request contains all context necessary to understand it. Therefore, looking at a single request is sufficient to visualize the interaction.

reliability

Since a request stands on its own, failure of one request does not influence others.

scalability

The server does not have to remember the application state, enabling it to serve more requests in a shorter amount of time.

Two states

Application state

  • stored on client
  • short-term

Resource state

  • stored on server
  • long-term

Reference

https://ruben.verborgh.org/blog/2012/08/24/rest-wheres-my-state

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