Trade-offs in data systems architecture

Overview

The application code is often stateless (i.e., when it finishes handling one HTTP request, it forgets everything about that request), and any information that needs to persist from one request to another needs to be stored either on the client or in the server-side data infrastructure.

Operational Versus Analytical Systems

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