4 articles tagged idempotency.
Déjà vu is a relatively harmless sensation for humans, but what happens when our APIs relive the same moment over and over? Nothing good! Fortunately, help is at hand. Find out what idempotency is, why it's so important, and how suspiciously simple it is to add idempotency support to our apps.
In June 2025, I spoke at IPC Berlin about idempotency - what it is, how it protects our APIs, and what goes wrong when we forget about it! It was a great conference, in a fascinating city.
The Dutch PHP Conference in March 2025 was a great couple of days, where I got the opportunity to talk all about idempotency, and do it in a unique conference setting.
Idempotency is a critical concept to be aware of when building robust APIs, and is baked into the SDKs of companies like Stripe, Paypal, Shopify, and Amazon. But what exactly is idempotency? And how can we easily add support for it to our Laravel APIs?