FIG. 2 is a flow chart setting forth the general stages involved in a method 200 consistent with an embodiment of the disclosure for providing temporal transaction locality in a stateless environment. Method 200 may be implemented using ones of plurality of client service instances 125, transaction persistence module and load balancer 130, and ones of plurality of target service instances 135 as described in more detail above with respect to FIG. 1. Ways to implement the stages of method 200 will be described in greater detail below.

Method 200 may begin at starting block 205 and proceed to stage 210 where first client service instance 140 may receive a first message having an identifier. For example, the first message may comprise a message in a DOCSIS transaction received from client device 105 through node 110. The identifier, for example, may comprise or be based on: i) a Media Access Control (MAC) address of a Cable Modem (CM) corresponding to client device 105 from which the first message was received; ii) a Remote Physical Layer (R-PHY) node identifier corresponding to node 110 from which the first message was received; and iii) a Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol Version 3 session corresponding to the first message.