This document discusses exactly once semantics in Apache Kafka 0.11. It provides an overview of how Kafka achieved exactly once delivery between producers and consumers. Key points include:
- Kafka 0.11 introduced exactly once semantics with changes to support transactions and deduplication.
- Producers can write in a transactional fashion and receive acknowledgments of committed writes from brokers.
- Brokers store commit markers to track the progress of transactions and ensure no data loss during failures.
- Consumers can read from brokers in a transactional mode and receive data only from committed transactions, guaranteeing no duplication of records.
- This allows reliable message delivery semantics between producers and consumers with Kafka acting as