zustandsbehaftete
Zustandsbehaftete is a German adjective meaning state-bearing or stateful. It describes objects, systems, or processes that maintain information about their past interactions or configuration, i.e., an internal state, across time or operations. The term is commonly used in German technical writing to distinguish zustandsbehaftet from zustandslos (stateless).
In computing, a zustandsbehaftetes component stores data between requests—such as session data, user preferences, or cached
This statefulness presents challenges for scalability and reliability. Replication, load balancing, and failover are more complex
In other domains, zustandsbehaftete can describe state-dependent properties or phenomena where the current state determines behavior
The term highlights the distinction between memoryless interactions and those that rely on stored information to