Stanford Seminar - Mind Your State for Your State of Mind

This seminar examines durable and session state, transactional and messaging semantics, identity and immutability, and application patterns in scalable distributed systems.

Syllabus

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.