From the course: Cloud Foundations: Building a Stateless Application

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Stateful app example

Stateful app example

- [Narrator] Now, we'll walk through the user experience of a stateful app, meaning an application that saves the state that is using tricks or methods to function on a stateless protocol. I've navigated to LinkedIn and sent a request for linkedin.com and now we're looking at the unauthenticated homepage. So let's get authenticated and sign in with our username and password. Now that we are signed in and authenticated, you'll see that your profile is here at the top, which signifies that I am successfully authenticated. The question around the state of this page occurs when I go about sending a new request. I can do that in many ways, one by refreshing the page and this action sends a new request to LinkedIn server. So let's go ahead and refresh the page. I'm still signed in. You see my profile here and the page stayed relatively the same. So let's double click into this. What's going on? HTTP is a stateless protocol…

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