Idempotent design

What is Idempotent design?

System design property where repeating the same operation produces the same result without unintended duplicate effects

In other languages

한국어멱등 설계

같은 작업을 여러 번 실행해도 결과나 부작용이 한 번 실행한 것과 같도록 만드는 설계 원칙

日本語冪等設計

同じ操作を複数回実行しても結果が変わらず、重複処理を避けられるようにする設計原則

Related Terms

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• IdempotencyA property of certain operations in mathematics and computer science whereby they can be applied multiple times without changing the result beyond the initial application.
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• Circuit BreakerSoftware design pattern used to detect failures and encapsulate the logic of preventing a recurring operation during periods of high latency or system instability
• Fault-tolerant architectureA computer system designed to continue operating properly in the event of the failure of one or more of its components
• Hyrum's LawAn adage stating that with a sufficient number of users of an API, it does not matter what you promise in the contract: all observable behaviors of your system will be depended on by somebody
• Monotonically increasing indexA numeric sequence in which each successive value is always larger than the previous one, often used to preserve chronological order in distributed systems.