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Re:Amazon Prime Video’s Microservices Move Doesn’t Lead to a... by asimpletune on Monday July 10, 2023 @08:58AM (#36665697)
I saw this exact same pattern before. I think it's actually common, because I've also heard people in favor of micro services point to this design as a point in their favor.

One reason always given is the ability to replay chunks if the system goes down, at least for Kafka.

Re:Amazon Prime Video’s Microservices Move Doesn’t Lead to a... by renegade-otter on Monday July 10, 2023 @10:38AM (#36667125)
At one level that SORT of makes sense, but this extreme resilience becomes so complex that I can't imagine a simpler "retry where you were last time" logic cannot replace that. It's not like that problem has not been solved thousands of times before these new cool ways were the new expensive hotness.

Also, I doubt many of these places even know if their system is that tested for resilience. Do they know they are less likely to lose more data than that one record, which may not even be that precious?