UDP gives you practically no guarantees about anything. Forget exactly once processing, UDP doesn't even give you any kind of guarantees about delivery to begin with, whether delivery will happen at all, order of delivery, lack of duplicates, etc, nothing. These things are so far from comparable that this idea makes no sense even after trying real hard to steelman it.
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UDP gives you practically no guarantees about anything. Forget exactly once processing, UDP doesn't even give you any kind of guarantees about delivery to begin with, whether delivery will happen at all, order of delivery, lack of duplicates, etc, nothing. These things are so far from comparable that this idea makes no sense even after trying real hard to steelman it.