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		nawgz on March 1, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: You cannot have exactly-once delivery (2015) Idempotency - famously complex. No one has ever successfully implemented it, great point.

paxys on March 1, 2023 [–]

If you don't think idempotency can be complex then you haven't really worked on serious distributed computing problems.

nawgz on March 1, 2023 | [–]

If you don't think your analogy is a miss then you haven't really read any serious literature.

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