alt Hacker NewsIdempotency is an important attribute for correctness. Yep, you can document that POSTing to $ENDPOINT is idempotent, but you can't communicate that to caching layers throughout the network. QUERY, by definition, is idempotent and cacheable.
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jnewton_dev • today at 1:02 PM
Does anyone know if this approach works at significantly larger scales? Curious about where it breaks down.
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Great point. I wish more people realized that intuitively.