What is Idempotency in REST APIs and Why Should You Care?

Parthipan Natkunam
Nerd For Tech
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4 min readJan 21, 2021

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Idem-what now?

If you have been working with APIs, chances are that you might have heard some of your peers throw around the word “Idempotence”, leaving you to wonder what they really mean by that word anyway.

In this article we’ll look at a detailed answer; so we could learn what this fancy word “Idempotence” actually means in a…

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Parthipan Natkunam
Nerd For Tech

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