Stateless and Stateful Systems

We can say that a system belongs in one of the two following categories:

• Stateless systems
• Stateful systems

Stateless system

A stateless system maintains no state of what happened in the past and performs its capabilities purely based on the inputs we provide to it.

Examples

A contrived stateless system receives a set of numbers as input, calculates their maximum, and returns it as a result. These inputs are either direct or indirect. Direct inputs are inputs that ...