Delivery Guarantees and the Ethics of Teleportation

The Two Generals Problem highlights the challenge of achieving reliable communication in distributed systems, which is also relevant to science fiction concepts like teleportation. The problem arises when using unreliable channels, making it impossible to guarantee message delivery or success. This has consequences in various fields, including software development, where developers must make decisions about how to handle message duplication and failures. To address this issue, Confluent's Apache Kafka provides transactional guarantees, enabling developers to build robust event streaming applications with high-throughput and reliability.