Scaling stateless services is easy, but scaling their stateful data stores, not so much. This is true whether you are using an “old fashioned" relational database, or one of the popular, “modern" KV data stores, such as MongoDB or Redis.

In this presentation we will discuss some of the issues with state management in elastic microservices today, and look into how Oracle Coherence, with its Helidon and Eclipse MicroProfile integration, provides a better alternative you can use tomorrow.

Managing State in Elastic Microservices