By application state, do you mean something like an in memory cache? I would prefer having no such state in the first place, and have all meaningful state in th

By application state, do you mean something like an in memory cache? I would prefer having no such state in the first place, and have all meaningful state in the DB to be pulled out or mutated as needed. I recognize that what you’re advocating for makes of sense in some applications, I just wanted to point out that I haven’t felt the need for it in my eight years of software development.