Stateless services are all nice and dandy, and all the marketing you'll see is about stateless services. The trouble starts when you: - run a stateful service

Stateless services are all nice and dandy, and all the marketing you'll see is about stateless services. The trouble starts when you: - run a stateful service that's not explicitly designed to work well in a distributed fashion. - have services that need to be started in a precise order.