--- title: Differences in Scaling Stateless vs. Stateful Microservices description: A microservice is designed, developed, and deployed as an independent service. Stateless microservices maintain and manage session-specific states throughout... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/differences-in-scaling-stateless-vs-stateful-microservices-czuygroqc twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Differences in Scaling Stateless vs. Stateful Microservices | daily.dev og:description: A microservice is designed, developed, and deployed as an independent service. Stateless microservices maintain and manage session-specific states throughout... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/differences-in-scaling-stateless-vs-stateful-microservices-czuygroqc og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/cZuyGroQC.png og:image:alt: Differences in Scaling Stateless vs. Stateful Microservices og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Differences in Scaling Stateless vs. Stateful Microservices **[Amplication](https://daily.dev/sources/amplication)** · 7 min read · 50 upvotes · 4 comments ## Summary A microservice is designed, developed, and deployed as an independent service. Stateless microservices maintain and manage session-specific states throughout multiple requests. Scaling out involves the addition of more nodes (or instances) of your microservice. It's important to understand that scaling out is done automatically in a serverless environment. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@erez24** · 1 upvotes > Insightful read from our very own Muly Gottlieb at Amplication! He dives deep into the nuances of scaling stateless and stateful microservices. A must-read for those navigating backend development. **@divyansh** · 0 upvotes > great article!! **@yuvalhazaz** · 0 upvotes > From our own rockstar VP of engineering 💜 > Thanks @mulyg **@vikamplication** · 0 upvotes > 🚀🚀 --- Tags: [#performance](https://daily.dev/tags/performance), [#database](https://daily.dev/tags/database), [#backend](https://daily.dev/tags/backend), [#microservices](https://daily.dev/tags/microservices) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/differences-in-scaling-stateless-vs-stateful-microservices-czuygroqc) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Differences in Scaling Stateless vs. Stateful Microservices","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/differences-in-scaling-stateless-vs-stateful-microservices-czuygroqc","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/differences-in-scaling-stateless-vs-stateful-microservices-czuygroqc"},"datePublished":"2023-07-27T10:35:06.756Z","dateModified":"2023-07-27T10:34:54.056Z","description":"A microservice is designed, developed, and deployed as an independent service. 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