Designing a Passively Safe API
by dalbaugh on 1/26/2026, 7:03:04 PM
https://www.danealbaugh.com/articles/passively-safe-apis
Comments
by: compressedgas
> In APIs, passively safe means failures (crashes, timeouts, retries, partial outages) can't produce duplicate work, surprise side effects, or unrecoverable state.<p>I thought that was what 'idempotent' meant.
1/28/2026, 11:27:48 AM