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by saryant 2841 days ago
I don't believe Scribe and Kafka are equivalent. Isn't Scribe at-most-once?

Unless we're talking about two different projects named Scribe, which is certainly possible.
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pdpi 2840 days ago
As lclarkmichalek said, there’s more than one way to skin a cat.

At any rate, I used “equivalent” here to mean that, while different trade-offs have been made, it has the sort of users building the same sort of applications on the same sort of abstractions — it plays the same role, for all intents and purposes.

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lclarkmichalek 2840 days ago
Scribe doesn't really make decisions about that, it doesn't store checkpoints for readers. Readers are commonly more-than-once.
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pdpi 2840 days ago
> Scribe doesn't really make decisions about that

It kind of does, on the write pipeline. Tailers vary, but scribed controls the semantics of how your message gets delivered to LogDevice.

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