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		hashhar on Oct 23, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: OpenTelemetry at Scale: Using Kafka to handle burs... 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.

viraptor on Oct 23, 2023 [–]

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.

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