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- noun mathematics, computing A quality of an action such that
repetitions of the action have no further effect on outcome – beingidempotent .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The idempotence guarantee means you can simply issue the request again.
Netvouz - new bookmarks cduret 2010
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Atomicity, statelessness, idempotence, and parallelism: that's your ticket to code that's ready for both modern multicore chips and the future of distributed -- or cloud -- computing.
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Atomicity, statelessness, idempotence, and parallelism: that's your ticket to code that's ready for both modern multicore chips and the future of distributed -- or cloud -- computing.
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Atomicity, statelessness, idempotence, and parallelism: that's your ticket to code that's ready for both modern multicore chips and the future of distributed -- or cloud -- computing.
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Atomicity, statelessness, idempotence, and parallelism: that's your ticket to code that's ready for both modern multicore chips and the future of distributed -- or cloud -- computing.
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Atomicity, statelessness, idempotence, and parallelism: that's your ticket to code that's ready for both modern multicore chips and the future of distributed -- or cloud -- computing.
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Atomicity, statelessness, idempotence, and parallelism: that's your ticket to code that's ready for both modern multicore chips and the future of distributed -- or cloud -- computing.
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In this first half of a two-part article, Appistry engineer Guerry Semones gets you started with the four design principles for writing cloud-ready, multicore friendly code: atomicity, statelessness, idempotence, and parallelism.
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Eric notes that idempotence is used all the time in caching functions that create the object being requested.
Coding Horror Jeff Atwood 2009
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It needs to support capabilities such as durable subscribers, message persistence and delivery tracking, idempotence, etc.
MSDN Blogs 2008
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