[madhadron]

> State is always the enemy in technology.

Except that state and its manipulation is usually the primary value in technology.

> I can't even imagine managing hundreds of servers whose state is unpredictable at any moment and they can't be terminated and replaced with a fresh instance for fear of losing something.

Yes, that sounds awful. That's why we have backups and, if necessary, redundancy and high availability.

[nickthemagicman]

> Except that state and its manipulation is usually the primary value in technology.

Exactly and thats why you put state in data stores and keep your servers immutable.