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Lobster Programming

May 30, 2025 · Backend Development

How to Ensure API Idempotency with Locks: 5 Proven Strategies

This article explores five practical lock-based approaches—including database primary keys, pessimistic and optimistic locks, state machines, and distributed locks—to achieve reliable API idempotency in distributed systems, highlighting implementation details, trade‑offs, and code examples.

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How to Ensure API Idempotency with Locks: 5 Proven Strategies

Lobster Programming

May 27, 2025 · Backend Development

Ensuring API Idempotency with Redis and Unique Serial Numbers

This article explains how to achieve API idempotency by having clients send a short‑lived unique serial number, storing it as a Redis key with SETNX and an expiration, and handling the Redis response to process or reject duplicate requests.

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Ensuring API Idempotency with Redis and Unique Serial Numbers