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A stable key prevents one class of duplicate.
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A stable key prevents one class of duplicate.
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A stable key prevents one class of duplicate.
Every boundary needs an owner and deadline.
Accepted pending is a valid result.
My rule: Gate completion on the promised customer effect.
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The control plane should recognize a repeated operation identity. That limits accidental re-initiation. It does not make placement, network route, serving process and account mapping update atomically.
For a customer move, name the required placement version, route destination, drained old workers and billing or account mapping. Decide how fresh each read must be and who owns a late or contradictory value.
After the receipt, read each subsystem independently. If one remains stale, retain accepted pending rather than starting another move or declaring completion. At deadline, route the unresolved effect to an operator.
Use idempotency for the command boundary and a convergence contract for the customer outcome. Do that because the API can be perfectly deduplicated while the service is still unhealthy.
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1. A stable key prevents one class of duplicate.
The control plane should recognize a repeated operation identity. That limits accidental re-initiation. It does not make placement, network route, serving process and account mapping update atomically.
Visual: It says nothing about a distributed terminal state.
2. Write the completed condition first.
For a customer move, name the required placement version, route destination, drained old workers and billing or account mapping. Decide how fresh each read must be and who owns a late or contradictory value.
Visual: Every boundary needs an owner and deadline.
3. Give the agent a state machine.
After the receipt, read each subsystem independently. If one remains stale, retain accepted pending rather than starting another move or declaring completion. At deadline, route the unresolved effect to an operator.
Visual: Accepted pending is a valid result.
4. Separate initiation from success.
Use idempotency for the command boundary and a convergence contract for the customer outcome. Do that because the API can be perfectly deduplicated while the service is still unhealthy.
Visual: Gate completion on the promised customer effect.
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