Glossary term
What is optimistic concurrency? Meaning for developers
Let people edit freely, and reject a save with 412 if the thing changed since they read it.
Learn it properly · API DesignLesson 1: HTTP Methods, Status Codes and Idempotency in PracticeGET, POST, PUT, PATCH and DELETE used correctly, the status codes that matter, and why idempotency decides whether a retry is safe.