For many years now, stateless-serverful has been the go-to pattern for building backend services. This pattern is well understood and supported by mature, powerful toolsets. While we have continually improved and fine-tuned stateless-serverful, we are always looking for something better, something different that may significantly improve how we build and run our systems. Often, a better way to do things is to take things in an alternate direction. In this case, replace stateless with stateful, replace serverfull with serverless. So what is stateful-serverless? Well, that is what we will cover