Most REST services are stateless - i.e. they do not store state in memory and can be scaled out horizontally.
There is another concept called a 'idempotent' operation. An operation is considered to be idempotent if making the same call with the same input parameters repeatedly gives the same results. In other words, the service does not differentiate between one call or a million calls.
Typically all GET, HEAD, OPTIONS calls are safe and idempotent. PUT and DELETE are also considered idempotent, but they can return different responses, but with no state change. A good video describing this is here - http://www.restapitutorial.com/lessons/idempotency.html
POST calls are NOT idempotent, as every call creates a new record.
There is another concept called a 'idempotent' operation. An operation is considered to be idempotent if making the same call with the same input parameters repeatedly gives the same results. In other words, the service does not differentiate between one call or a million calls.
Typically all GET, HEAD, OPTIONS calls are safe and idempotent. PUT and DELETE are also considered idempotent, but they can return different responses, but with no state change. A good video describing this is here - http://www.restapitutorial.com/lessons/idempotency.html
POST calls are NOT idempotent, as every call creates a new record.
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