# Idempotent jobs In order to take advantage of [the ability to retry failed jobs](/guide/retrying-failing-jobs.md), your jobs should be designed with failure in mind. This means that it should not make a difference to the final state of the system if a job successfully completes on its first attempt, or if it fails initially and succeeds when retried. This is called *Idempotence*. To achieve this behaviour, your jobs should be as atomic and simple as possible. Performing many different actions (such as database updates, API calls, ...) at once makes it hard to keep track of the process flow and, if needed, rollback partial progress when an exception occurs. Simpler jobs also means simpler debugging, identifying bottlenecks, etc. If necessary, split complex jobs [as described in the flow pattern](/patterns/flows.md). --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://docs.bullmq.io/patterns/idempotent-jobs.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.