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Idempotency Patterns

Make retries safe

Idempotency patterns store request ids or results to make retries safe, preventing duplicate side effects in APIs and jobs.

Identify Side Effects

Find writes or external calls that could double-run.

Store Keys

Use idempotency keys to deduplicate and return the same result.

Test

Force retries/failures in tests to verify safe behavior.

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