Re:OpenTelemetry at Scale: Using Kafka to handle bursty traffic
by hashhar on Monday October 23, 2023 @02:27AM
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In Kafka the "queue" is dumb, it doesn't lose messages (it's an append only durable log) nor does it resend anything unless the consumer requests it.
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Re:OpenTelemetry at Scale: Using Kafka to handle bursty traffic
by viraptor on Monday October 23, 2023 @03:08PM
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There has to be a retry system somewhere, otherwise you'd end up with a 0-or-more delivery system if the app crashes after picking up from the queue, but never processing or ack-ing.