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Aug 4, 2026 · Cloud Native

Stateless Design at Ten‑Million QPS: Moving State Out of Compute for Elastic Scaling

The article analyzes how local state—such as in‑memory sessions, caches, files, and long‑lived connections—breaks elastic scaling, outlines four concrete paths to externalize that state (Redis, JWT, object storage, and gateway separation), and explains the resulting scalability benefits, trade‑offs, and performance considerations.