Overview#
State is the particular condition that an
entity is in at a specific
time.State of a digital logic circuit or computer program is a technical term for all the
stored information, at a given instant in time, to which the circuit or
application has access.
The output of a digital circuit or computer application at any time is completely determined by its current inputs and its State or data.
State can refer to the position within a life cycle
A change in State may be referred to as an Event!! Systems State
Generally, systems are considered to be one of the following:
In
OAuth 2.0 there is an
OAuth state parameter
Be smart with State#
Storing of 'State', be that user
data (e.g., the items in the users shopping cart, or their employee number) or system State (e.g., how many instances of a job are running, what version of code is running in production), is the hardest aspect of architecting a
Distributed systems (
Cloud Native)
architecture. You should therefore architect your system to be intentional about when, and how, you store State, and design components to be
stateless wherever you can.!!
Jurisdiction as
state
Often others may refer to State such as a
US State. LDAPWiki will often use the word
Jurisdiction which may NOT be technically correct.
There might be more information for this subject on one of the following: