{"id":27469,"date":"2020-01-28T10:44:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-28T16:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=27469"},"modified":"2020-01-28T10:44:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-28T16:44:00","slug":"word-of-the-day-535","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/01\/28\/word-of-the-day-535\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Idempotent<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Idempotency in Cows and REST APIs\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6dVNdFwqeKs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.restapitutorial.com\/lessons\/idempotency.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong><em>REST API Tutorial<\/em><\/strong><\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>Sorry about the verbiage about their APIs, that&#8217;s a bit extraneous.<\/p>\n<p>In some ways, it sounds like the formal definition of a function in mathematics: given the same inputs, the same output should always occur. For you software types, there&#8217;s no such thing as a global variable in formal mathematics.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, this word was noted in &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.netmeister.org\/blog\/ops-lessons.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>(A few) Ops Lessons We All Learn The Hard Way<\/em><\/a>,&#8221; <strong><em>Signs of Triviality<\/em><\/strong>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>16. Very few operations are truly idempotent.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A site for what are called the Ops people in the software industry: the professionals who keep everything humming along. I love those people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Idempotent: [REST API Tutorial] Sorry about the verbiage about their APIs, that&#8217;s a bit extraneous. In some ways, it sounds like the formal definition of a function in mathematics: given the same inputs, the same output should always occur. For you software types, there&#8217;s no such thing as a global \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/01\/28\/word-of-the-day-535\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27470,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27469\/revisions\/27470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}