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Idempotency is an important attribute for correctness. Yep, you can document that POSTing to $ENDPOINT is idempotent, but you can't communicate that to caching
by jagged-chisel 4mo ago
Idempotency is an important attribute for correctness. Yep, you can document that POSTing to $ENDPOINT is idempotent, but you can't communicate that to caching layers throughout the network. QUERY, by definition, is idempotent and cacheable.
- jnewton_dev 4mo ago[flagged]
- inigyou 4mo agoLarger scales like what? I expect that everywhere you currently cache GETs you can cache QUERYs. But does caching GETs work at scale?
- resters 4mo agoGreat point. I wish more people realized that intuitively.