Best practices for connecting to Athena
In this section, we're going to go over some things to consider when connecting to and calling Athena, including idempotency tokens and query tracking.
Idempotency tokens
I know this statement may come as a huge surprise to you, but perfect software does not exist. It's going to fail. There's a reason why there are so many different options out there for monitoring the operational status of an application. And among the infinitesimal category of possible failure scenarios, they can be narrowed down to two large categories – safe to retry and not safe to retry. It's that second category we will be focusing on in this section. More specifically there is a subcategory of not safe to retry that can quickly be summarized as ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ – you have no clue whether it is safe to retry; you know something happened, but exactly what happened is a complete mystery.
Thankfully Athena (and many other...
