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@@ -45,11 +45,8 @@ This is a Node.js application. It is written purely using JavaScript/HTML/CSS, w
Express.js, Socket.io, and Node-Redis. It runs as a containerized application
via Google Cloud Run.
-No data is stored persistently. The app is almost entirely stateless, with instances kept in sync via
-Redis, specifically with the pub/sub model.
-The exceptions are a browser cookie used to identify a particular player, and the Node.js child processes that are spawned to
-keep track of games with a timer, which are stored in an instance's memory and communicated to other instances if needed. In the end, it should not matter
-which instance a given client connects to.
+Instances of this app are part of a stateless architecture that scales up and down as needed. Instances communicate with a separate Redis datastore, sending/receiving client events using the pub/sub model. So, it does not matter which instance a given client connects to. Games are purged from Redis after a period of inactivity.
+
## Contributing and Developers' Guide
### Running Locally