In this chapter, we will learn how Service Fabric helps to develop intelligent bots using stateless and stateful microservices.
Azure Service Fabric is an Azure service offered by Microsoft to develop and publish microservice-based applications and perform life cycle management. Developers have the ability to select which architecture they want to use, such as stateless or stateful services. This allows developers to develop an architectural approach where complex applications are involved and composed of small, independently versioned services to scale in the cloud with Azure Service Fabric.
The name stateless microservices itself tells that they will not maintain state. Protocol gateways and web proxies do not maintain a mutable state outside a request and its response from the service. The best examples of stateless microservice architecture are...