Understanding Message Delivery: At-Most-Once, At-Least-Once, and Exactly-Once Semantics

Dive into the world of Kafka message delivery semantics and discover how they impact distributed system reliability and performance.

In this episode, we explore:

• The crucial differences between at-most-once, at-least-once, and exactly-once delivery


• Real-world applications of each semantic, including a banking system scenario


• How Kafka achieves exactly-once processing through transactions


• The trade-offs between reliability, performance, and complexity in message delivery

Tune in to gain valuable insights that will help you make informed decisions about message delivery in your Kafka-based systems.

Want to dive deeper into this topic? Check out our blog post here: Read more

• Muaaz Saleem


• brkn