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0 pointszinkem12h ago0 comments

Idempotency is easy if you don't use mutable state in your middleware.

Auth, logging, and atomicity are all isolated concerns that should not affect the domain specific user contract with your API.

How you handle unique keys is going to vary by domain and tolerance-- and its probably not going to be the same in every table.

It's important to design a database schema that can work independently of your middleware layer.

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ahoka11h ago

So idempotency is easy if your service does not do anything useful?

mrkeen10h ago

It's just the horrible misapplication of the term 'stateless' to a wrapper around something very-much stateful. It's here to stay.

(Though I do disagree with the original premise too. Putting on a 'stateless' boxing glove won't mean there's no difference between punching a guy once or twice)

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