alt Hacker NewsSomething that anyone doing distributed systems knows after a few scars, stateless servers are always better, and stateful only if there is no way around it.
I learnt this with Sun RPC and the whole "The network is the computer".
Somehow this keeps having to be relearnt.
I keep encountering mistakes by people who are convinced that agentic interactions are nothing new, that all the decades of hard-won lessons about service API design are 100% relevant and nothing more is needed, that agents can be relegated to the role of just-another-caller and left to the dismal domain of client developers.
It’s not true. It’s not totally untrue, but don’t hide your head in the sand.