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Data streaming and Benthos

Go Time: Golang, Software Engineering

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Is There a Disk Buffer in a Kafka?

If you don't want any lost messages, what you should do is read a message and then wait to acknowledge it until it's gone all the way through your service. A lot of Q systems have mechanisms where if you take too long to acknowledge something, it will assume it's lost and it will recue it. Ben Thos: Any system that will automatically recue a message usually has some mechanism for temporarily saying, hey, I'm still working on this,. So in my opinion, that's the better option, but it depends on your system.

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