advancedIdempotency in Distributed Systems
How does the idempotency-key pattern make a non-idempotent operation safe to retry?
The caller attaches a unique key to the request, and the server remembers which keys it has already fully processed — a retried request carrying the SAME key returns the already-completed result directly instead of re-executing the operation (like a payment charge) a second time.
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