Idempotency yana nufin cewa aiki yana samar da sakamako gida ko an yi shi sau ɗaya ko sau da yawa. Yana da mahimmanci sosai a cikin tsarin tsawo-tsawo saboda sake gwadawa da saƙoƙi da yawa suna kasancewa na ba shakka — ayyukan da suke da idempotency suna mai bugun jiya.
Menene idempotency
An operation is IDEMPOTENT if doing it MULTIPLE times has the SAME effect as doing it ONCE:
→ "set balance to 100" → idempotent (same result however many times)
→ "add 100 to balance" → NOT idempotent (each call changes it → wrong if duplicated!)
→ in HTTP: GET, PUT, DELETE are idempotent; POST typically is NOT
Me yasa ya matukar koli a cikin tsarin tsawo-tsawo
Retries and duplicates are INEVITABLE in distributed systems:
→ a request times out → the client RETRIES → but the original may have succeeded →
the operation runs TWICE (e.g. a payment charged twice! an order placed twice!)
→ message queues often guarantee AT-LEAST-ONCE delivery → duplicates happen
→ network issues, failures → operations get retried
→ if operations are IDEMPOTENT, duplicates/retries are SAFE (no harm from repeating)
→ this is essential for correctness and safe retries.
