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At-most-once delivery is easy in anything. At-least-once is hard from scratch but there are good tools (TCP, HTTP/3) and patterns (retry, acknowledgement, logical monotonicity) and it’s generally not back-breaking.

Of course what everyone wants is exactly-once, which is profoundly difficult even when you know the exact cast of characters in terms of problem domain and compute fabric.

Idempotent updates with retry and ack is a very popular compromise that’s usually pretty feasible.




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