Yeah, I know. I figure that for incoming HTTP traffic it's relatively easy to balance the GET requests, and if they're doing anything remotely sane with HTTP those ought to be idempotent (if they're not, Googlebot will come along and delete their site ;-)).
For mutating requests, there's a solution as well, but it involves checksumming the request and passing the checksum along so that the database layer knows to discard duplicate requests that it's already handled. You need this anyway if there's any sort of retry logic in your application, though.
For mutating requests, there's a solution as well, but it involves checksumming the request and passing the checksum along so that the database layer knows to discard duplicate requests that it's already handled. You need this anyway if there's any sort of retry logic in your application, though.