Stanford Seminar - Mind Your State for Your State of Mind

Explore the complexities of modern microservice-based applications and their impact on state management in this Stanford seminar. Delve into the challenges of durable state, session state, and transactions in distributed systems. Examine the evolution from shared processes to microservices, and understand the implications for stateful sessions and cross-identity relationships. Learn about transactional messaging, the blurring of identity through append operations, and its application in e-commerce product catalogs. Gain valuable insights into effective application patterns for managing state in contemporary software architectures.

Introduction.
Outline.
Challenges in Modern Microservice-based Apps.
Durable State and Session State.
Transactions and Careful Replacement.
Messaging Semantics • Transactional messaging is pretty cool.
Same Process → Different Process • Applications and databases used to run in the same process.
Stateful Sessions and Transactions Stateful sessions were the natural outcome of shared processes.
Transactions, Sessions, and Microservices.
Cross Identity Relationships.
How "Append" Blurs Identity.
ECommerce - Product Catalog.
It's About the Application Pattern!.
Takeaways.