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Delivering Billions of Messages Exactly Once

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Re: Delivering Billions of Messages Exactly Once

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"The single requirement of all data pipelines is that they cannot lose data."

Unless the business value of data is derived after applying some summary statistics, than even sampling the data works, and you can lose events in an event stream, while not changing the insight gained. Originally Kafka was designed to be a high throughput data bus for analytical pipeline where losing messages was ok. More recently they are experimenting with exactly once delivery.

Re: Delivering Billions of Messages Exactly Once

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Site seems to be down. Any ideas how big these HN hugs of death usually are? How big of a traffic spike brings these servers down?

It's not down

Hmm weird. I get: This site can’t be reached

segment.com refused to connect.

Try:

Checking the connection

ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED

Maybe something local to me only?

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