Lexicon

Idempotency Key

Kind: technique

Layer: Correctness Core

Record: lexicon:idempotency-key

Canonical: Lexicon

A technique for tagging each request with a unique key, so a repeated request is recognized and applied once.

Listed in Lexicon terms, after Translate Errors at the Boundary and before Bounded Retry.

Category

  • Error Handling / Resilience

Refactors

  • Retry Storm
  • Retry Pattern
  • Idempotency

Linked from

  • Anti-patterns
  • Error Handling / Resilience
  • Transactions / State / Concurrency