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Re:Ask HN: How do you handle duplicate side effects when job... by fernando_campos on Sunday March 01, 2026 @03:46AM (#47204915)
Retries become dangerous when workflows aren't designed to be idempotent from the beginning.

What helped us was treating every job execution as replayable and attaching a unique operation key instead of relying on execution state alone.

Otherwise retries silently create data inconsistencies that only appear much later.

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