Prevent lost updates from concurrent writes.
Section: Response shaping
Protect updates with If-Match
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PATCH /documents/doc_123
If-Match: "686897696a7c876b7e"Explanation
If the entity tag no longer matches, the API can reject the write and ask the client to refetch.
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