Well, we are moving towards more statelessness in infrastructure, meaning the state is only stored in databases and the rest of the infrastructure does not (or

Well, we are moving towards more statelessness in infrastructure, meaning the state is only stored in databases and the rest of the infrastructure does not (or should not) contain any state. So you can have immutable servers which you can replace and upgrade/downgrade at will with much less worry about state. You still need to care about the databases but it is much more confined.