[stingraycharles]

> In my case, updating the client would have taken weeks, in the best case scenario. Updating the backend to check for a matching request body would have taken minutes, maybe hours.

Then at least admit you’re just hacking quickly fixes, creating technical debt, and not fixing the actual problem.

I agree with your point that business interest is most important, I disagree that it’s the technically most appropriate solution.

The whole article is proclaiming that this is a technical problem about idempotency being hard, while it’s not. The whole premise of client side bugs must be resolved backend side as the correct solution is incorrect.

[mainde]

Eh, idk, I wouldn't classify these fixes as hacks nor as technical debt. It's labels that only work from a partial perspective. IMHO a solution that expects perfect compliance is not really complete, it's not good enough to put all the burden on the client, idempotency keys are part of the solution, but not the solution. So, in this sense I would say it is a technical problem.