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Quiz: Where Does the Memory Live?

These questions test whether you understand why serverless struggles with state, and what a stateful engine does differently, not just that "Flink is better."

Quiz

Pill 5: State Is the Real Bottleneck

Question 1 of 6

How did it go?

If you scored below 70%, re-read Pill 5, and picture the two bad options a stateless Lambda has for remembering the last 10 minutes. Which one wastes more, network calls or recomputation?

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