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Delivery guarantees

At-most-once, at-least-once and exactly-once trade complexity for correctness.

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  • At-least-once needs idempotent consumers.
  • Idempotent producers reduce duplicates.
  • Transactions enable exactly-once.

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At-most-once, at-least-once and exactly-once trade complexity for correctness.

  • At-least-once needs idempotent consumers.
  • Idempotent producers reduce duplicates.
  • Transactions enable exactly-once.
guarantees.txtText
at-most-once: commit before processing
at-least-once: process then commit
exactly-once: transactional producer + consumer
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