> I don't understand the purpose of at-most-once semantics in practice: So, you've got some process where you don't care if the message goes through, but you'r

> I don't understand the purpose of at-most-once semantics in practice: So, you've got some process where you don't care if the message goes through, but you're willing spend money on the compute/storage for it anyway? Why bother? For instance because the time for retransmission is higher than what someone (say an HTTP request) is going to wait for.