While that is very true, I think my point still stands. Even if you consider the application to be the combination of stateless binary + stateful auxiliary ser

While that is very true, I think my point still stands. Even if you consider the application to be the combination of stateless binary + stateful auxiliary services (like a database), the statelessness of the binary allows for some neat things. I replied to a comment talking about how network based database access is not necessary, and I think it very much is if you want to host stuff with the current popular architecture. Unless you implement a general shared persistence layer on which you can run e.g sqlite, but that dosen't seem better/easier to me.