# Statelessness or Shared State Strategy

> A decision to make instances stateless or externalize state to a shared store, so any instance can serve any request.

Record: `lex:statelessness-or-shared-state-strategy`
Kind: approach
Layer: [Performance Core](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/performance-core.md)
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon#lex-statelessness-or-shared-state-strategy

## category

- [Scalability / Performance / Optimization](https://banes-lab.com/records/lex-category/scalability-performance-optimization.md)

## referenced-by

- [Horizontal Scaling](https://banes-lab.com/records/arch/horizontal-scaling.md)