Idempotency in APIs: Preventing Duplicate Orders with Idempotency-Key

🐍 Python Developer Nuggets — Day 16 Idempotency in APIs Why do duplicate orders or notifications happen? Because retries happen… and your API isn’t idempotent. • The problem - Same request processed multiple times - Duplicate orders / double payments • The solution - Use Idempotency-Key - Return same response for repeated requests orders = create_order(request) # handled with idempotency key • What changes - First request → processed - Retry → same response returned - No duplicates • Golden rule - Same request + same key = same result Small Python tricks, Big Developer Impact! 🚀 #Python #Django #BackendEngineering #SystemDesign #CleanCode #Performance #DeveloperTips

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