Making a POST Request Idempotent in a Distributed System
There are only two hard problems in distributed systems: (2) Exactly-once delivery, (1) Guaranteed order of messages, (2) Exactly-once delivery. ~ Mathias Verraes
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There are only two hard problems in distributed systems: (2) Exactly-once delivery, (1) Guaranteed order of messages, (2) Exactly-once delivery. ~ Mathias Verraes
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