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Exactly-Once Delivery Does Not Exist. Your Consumer Has To Be Idempotent.
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Exactly-Once Delivery Does Not Exist. Your Consumer Has To Be Idempotent.

Not hard, not expensive, not a premium tier. Impossible, in the proven sense, and it follows from the Two Generals problem. Every product advertising exactly-once is selling at-least-once with deduplication bolted on, which means the work was always going to land on your consumer.

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