Idempotency Strategies for APIs: Preventing Duplicate Submissions
The article analyzes why network timeouts, client retries, user double‑clicks, and at‑least‑once MQ delivery cause duplicate intents, then details five practical idempotency techniques—conditional updates, unique constraints, Idempotency‑Key tokens, state machines with optimistic locks, and distributed locks—along with their trade‑offs and monitoring tips.
