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Idempotency: The Foundation of Reliable Financial APIs

Networks duplicate requests: clients retry after timeouts, gateways replay, workers redeliver, and users press submit again. In a financial API, “probably once” is not acceptable. Idempotency gives multiple deliveries of the same logical command one authorita…

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