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by WJW 2001 days ago
"Wait it out" is only a valid strategy when message rates are low enough that you can buffer them all until the network partition goes away again.

As an example, imagine a system sending a million 1 KB messages per second. To survive a 1 minute network outage it would need 60 GB extra storage to park the messages. If the outage lasts longer than it has space available, dropping messages becomes inevitable.