Using Atomic Transactions to Power an Idempotent API

The software industry as a whole contains a lot of people doing a lot of different things, but for every developer working on new embedded firmware, there’s about ten building the linchpin of modern software – CRUD apps that serve requests over HTTP. A lot of these apps are backed by MVC frameworks like Ruby on Rails or ASP.NET, and backed by ACID-compliant relational databases like Postgres or SQL Server.