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Where would you store an idempotency key, and how do you handle two concurrent requests arriving with the same key?

Tests whether you've thought through the race condition of two identical requests landing at nearly the same instant.

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Where would you store an idempotency key, and how do you handle two concurrent requests arriving with the same key?

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