Ordering System: Preventing Duplicate Orders
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A customer clicks Place Order once, the browser times out, and the customer clicks again. Now the database has two orders, or worse, one order and two payment attempts. This is a common failure mode in an Ordering System when retries are treated as new requests. The problem gets harder when the ord…
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- 2026-09-30 12:35 · DEV Community — AI
Ordering System: Preventing Duplicate Orders