It's worth noting that the logic in the article only applies to idempotent requests. See this article (by the same author) for the non-idempotent counter-part:

It's worth noting that the logic in the article only applies to idempotent requests. See this article (by the same author) for the non-idempotent counter-part: https://habr.com/ru/companies/yandex/articles/442762/ https://habr.com/ru/companies/yandex/articles/442762/ (unfortunately, in Russian). I am sure somebody posted a human-written English translation back then, but I cannot find it. So here is a Google-translated version (scroll past the internal error, the text is below): https://habr-com.translate.goog/ru/companies/yandex/articles/442762/?_x_tr_sl=ru&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en https://habr-com.translate.goog/ru/companies/yandex/articles...