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rusanu on June 29, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Delivering Billions of Messages Exactly Once

My point is that I've seen people making decisions to go with 'best effort delivery' and live with the (costly) consequences because they read here and there that EOIO is impossible, so why bother trying.

inlined on June 30, 2017 [–]

Because idempotentcy can be cheap at the application layer, so why try to solve something we know can never truly be solved?

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