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Is there something like zeromq (or build on it) that has guaranteed delivery?

• nlitened 4y ago
  You just send the message again periodically forever until you receive an acknowledgement message. I don't think you need "something" for this, it's a five-liner. Alternatively, depending on your use case, you mark messages with sequence numbers, and fill the gaps upon receiver's request.
• benreesman 4y ago
  At-most-once delivery is easy in anything. At-least-once is hard from scratch but there are good tools (TCP, HTTP/3) and patterns (retry, acknowledgement, logical monotonicity) and it’s generally not back-breaking. Of course what everyone wants is exactly-once, which is profoundly difficult even when you know the exact cast of characters in terms of problem domain and compute fabric. Idempotent updates with retry and ack is a very popular compromise that’s usually pretty feasible.