Designing an Idempotent Transaction API: Preventing Duplicate Financial Operations

In financial backend systems, network retries represent a classic race-condition vector. If a client attempts to post a transaction, suffers a TCP timeout, and blindly retries, the backend risks posting the transaction twice. To prevent duplicate financial operations, we must design an Idempotent AP…

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