Exactly-Once Semantics with Apache Kafka
Reading Time: 4 minutes Kafka’s exactly once semantics was recently introduced with the version 0.11 which enabled the message being delivered exactly once to the end consumer even if the producer retries to send the messages. This major release raised many eyebrows in the community as people believed that this is not mathematically possible in distributed systems. Jay Kreps, Co-founder on Confluent, and Co-creator of Apache Kafka explained its Continue Reading