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Re:Idempotence now prevents pain later by manigandham on Friday April 09, 2021 @04:33AM (#26748060)
This is basically like going from imperative to declarative.

Describe the final end/desired state and let the machine figure out how to get there, progressing through the work until it's caught up even across restarts or other boundaries.

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Re:Idempotence now prevents pain later by snidane on Friday April 09, 2021 @05:42AM (#26748502)
The outcome is the same. Except that it is not declarative, because 'you' are the machine who codes up that logic.
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