Fancy words that developers might need to knows

I often find myself stuggle a lot while reading some documents regarding computer science and stuff. This is a project to document all the words that I had a hard time understanding.

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Arbitrary
- Based on chance rather than being planned or based on reason
- For more info, read this

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Ephemeral
- May not persist, opposite of immutable

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Idempotent
- Produces same result
- Taking REST API as example, Idempotency is demonstrated in GET, PUT, DELETE, HEAD, OPTIONS, TRACE. However, POST is not idempotent.
- For more info, read this.

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