Confluent achieves holy grail of “exactly once” delivery on Kafka messaging service

 Confluent, the commercial company behind the open source messaging tool, Apache Kafka, announced a new feature this week that should please Kafka users — the ability to send a message using Kafka “exactly once.” That may not sound like a big deal to lay people, but to folks who use high speed messaging tools like Kafka, it is in fact a holy grail of sorts, something that… Read More