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Re:Delivering Billions of Messages Exactly Once by rusanu on Thursday June 29, 2017 @06:14PM (#14667281)
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.
Re:Delivering Billions of Messages Exactly Once by inlined on Thursday June 29, 2017 @09:13PM (#14668056)
Because idempotentcy can be cheap at the application layer, so why try to solve something we know can never truly be solved?