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>>defly+(OP)
Here's what I don't understand about distributed systems: TCP works amazing, so why not use the same ideas? Every message increments a counter, so the receiver can tell the ordering and whether some message is missing. Why is this complicated?

>>ekjhgk+hVf
It needs a single consumer to be that simple.

>>exitb+KVf
And a single producer! i.e. it breaks down if you add support for fault tolerance