# State Tracking

> The degree to which making operations idempotent requires tracking processed keys or prior state.

Record: `lex:state-tracking`
Kind: quality-attribute
Layer: [Atomic Boundary](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/atomic-boundary.md)
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon#lex-state-tracking

## category

- [Transactions / State / Concurrency](https://banes-lab.com/records/lex-category/transactions-state-concurrency.md)

## referenced-by

- [Idempotency](https://banes-lab.com/records/arch/idempotency.md)