We've been developing a serverless runtime for Transactional Cloud Apps. Here is why we adopted (streaming) stateful dataflow graphs.

"Transactional Cloud Applications Go with the (Data)Flow" K. Psarakis, G. Christodoulou, M. Fragkoulis, A. Katsifodimos.
CIDR'25: kpsarakis.com/assets/pdf/s...