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by dsies 2053 days ago
I might be missing something - what is the issue with being able to handle a replay event stream in a monolithic service?

As the previous poster mentioned, if you are are able to handle events idempotently, you should be able to ingest events, regardless of the destination - monolithic or distributed.
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revskill 2053 days ago
I mean, is there any way other than "replay" events ? In a monothlic architecture, all events are not missed, aren't it ?
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dsies 2053 days ago
Ahhh gotcha! Yes, that's actually one, decent sized pro for doing an event driven monolith haha

With that said, in a monolith - there is still a chance of missed events - deploy, bugs, etc. and at that point, you'd still want to employ replay to get your system back into a good state.

Your initial question was about missed events - replay is still the answer and if you design your system with idempotency - you will be able to reingest events (even if they're dupes).

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