Narrowing the gap between serverless and state with storage functions (2019) [pdf]

Another proposal from Apache Flink as another application of stateful distributed stream processing:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;statefun.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;statefun.io&#x2F;</a><p>Functions are deserialized along with their state when woken up by an input.

TLDR here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.acolyer.org&#x2F;2020&#x2F;01&#x2F;29&#x2F;narrowing-the-gap&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.acolyer.org&#x2F;2020&#x2F;01&#x2F;29&#x2F;narrowing-the-gap&#x2F;</a>

Somewhat related: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;azure&#x2F;azure-functions&#x2F;durable&#x2F;durable-functions-overview" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;azure&#x2F;azure-functions&#x2F;durab...</a>