1. An article of manufacture comprising: a non-transitory computer readable medium, the computer readable medium storing instructions thereon for managing application server session persistence, the instructions, which when executed, promoting actions comprising: managing records in a session persistence table for an application client session running in an application server environment, the managing including grouping two or more attributes of a first record by shared distinguishing traits of the attributes, which when the attributes are grouped together, reduce the number of serializations for storing the first record or the length of the first record to be serialized; identifying a change in a session attribute for the application client session; querying the session persistence table associated with the application running in the application server environment, the query to identify a record having the identified changed session attribute; and updating an attribute in the first record identified by the query of the session persistence table.