The theory says that in distributed systems everything is eventually consistent but the pragmatic view of the real world says that we need to be real careful on what we choose to make eventually consistent.

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“The role of the hospitalist often is to take recommendations from a lot of different specialties and come up with the best plan for the patient,” says Tejal Gandhi, MD, MPH, CPPS, president and CEO of the National Patient Safety Foundation. “They’re the true patient advocate who is getting the cardiologist’s opinion, the rheumatologist’s opinion, and the surgeon’s opinion, and they come up with the best plan for the patient.”

no data loss will occur as long as producers and consumers handle this possibility and retry appropriately.

By electing a new leader as soon as possible messages may be dropped but we will minimized downtime as any new machine can be leader.

keep in mind that these guarantees hold as long as you are producing to one partition and consuming from one partition.

Kafka consumer offset management protocol to keep track of what’s been uploaded to S3

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and is consistent within itself.

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