There are different application categories in the general application world, but we usually define them in two major types, i.e., stateless and stateful applications.
To have a clearer perspective, we can say that API-based applications are generally stateless, and databases are stateful. In simple words or definition, a stateless application is an application that doesn’t save or persists the client data. On the other hand, a stateful application saves data about each client and uses it for other requests.
In the older days, when we didn’t have a concept of containers and container orchestrators, there was a common way to manage both types of applications: server. For example- API and database-based applications get hosted on servers but with different configurations depending on the resource requirements.
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