With Soft start, the copies of a data item may be
inconsistent and the state of the system may change over time,
even without input because of the ‘‘Eventual Consistency’’.
‘‘The soft state mode should be utilized for applications built
on legacy functionality in the backend, particularly when the
functionality includes initial loading/caching of large sums of
information for a single request. By using soft state, the resources/functionality
which has been loaded during the initial