Idempotency is “a property of API design that ensures that making the same request multiple times produces the same result as making it once,” explains Karishma Shukla.
Enforcing idempotency ensures the predictability and reliability of the API and “allows clients to safely retry requests without causing any data duplication, overwriting, or other unwanted effects,” Shukla says.
This article outlines how and why to implement idempotency and provides examples using both Node.js and Python.
Read more at Dev.to.
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