AndrewJSchofield commented on code in PR #17454:
URL: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/17454#discussion_r1811146922
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docs/design.html:
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@@ -254,32 +254,32 @@ <h3 class="anchor-heading"><a id="semantics"
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<i>At least once</i>—Messages are never lost but may be
redelivered.
</li>
<li>
- <i>Exactly once</i>—this is what people actually want, each
message is delivered once and only once.
+ <i>Exactly once</i>—Each message is delivered once and only once.
</li>
</ul>
It's worth noting that this breaks down into two problems: the durability
guarantees for publishing a message and the guarantees when consuming a message.
<p>
- Many systems claim to provide "exactly once" delivery semantics, but it is
important to read the fine print, most of these claims are misleading (i.e.
they don't translate to the case where consumers or producers
+ Many systems claim to provide "exactly-once" delivery semantics, but it is
important to read the fine print, because sometimes these claims are misleading
(i.e. they don't translate to the case where consumers or producers
can fail, cases where there are multiple consumer processes, or cases
where data written to disk can be lost).
<p>
- Kafka's semantics are straight-forward. When publishing a message we have
a notion of the message being "committed" to the log. Once a published message
is committed it will not be lost as long as one broker that
- replicates the partition to which this message was written remains
"alive". The definition of committed message, alive partition as well as a
description of which types of failures we attempt to handle will be
+ Kafka's semantics are straightforward. When publishing a message we have a
notion of the message being "committed" to the log. Once a published message is
committed, it will not be lost as long as one broker that
Review Comment:
This term "committed" is exactly the same as used in the reliability
guarantees section of Kafka: The Definitive Guide. I'm not inclined to change
it as a result.
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