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Re:Kafka Is Dead, Long Live Kafka by kilotaras on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @05:14AM (#37046378)
You can't have exactly-once in distributed system. Crashes happen, network or power goes down and your ack get's lost[0].

The best one can do is accept that and make your processing idempotent.

[0] The most interesting case I've witnessed was power going down because a hot air balloon crashed into power line.

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