Lexicon

Instance-Local State

Kind: anti-pattern

Layer: Performance Core

Record: lexicon:instance-local-state

Canonical: Lexicon

Holding request-spanning state on one instance, so requests cannot be served by any other instance.

Listed in Lexicon terms, after Instance Affinity and before Local Micro-Optimization.

Category

  • Scalability / Performance / Optimization

Negated by

  • Horizontal Scaling

Violates

  • Statelessness

Linked from

  • Scalability / Performance / Optimization