Backend
Jul 2026 7 min read
Building Endpoints That Survive Being Retried
The hardest bug in backend work isn't the request that fails — it's the one that succeeds and then times out, so the client never hears back and tries again. That's how one 'Pay' click becomes two charges. A practical look at idempotency keys, the race between duplicate requests & designing writes that are safe to repeat.
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