AI engineering glossary · Web APIs HTTP
What is stateless?
Stateless: A property of a server design in which each request is handled entirely from the information it contains, with no memory of earlier requests kept between calls. Statelessness lets any server in a pool answer any request, which makes systems easier to scale and recover.
Stateless: an example
Each API call carries its own token, so a load balancer can send call 1 to server A and call 2 to server B.
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Where you learn it
Stateless is part of the AI Engineering Program, which teaches it with notes, a hands-on lab and an exam. The first lesson is free.