Comment by jerf

It would if the source was pushing into the Kafka stream directly. It doesn't solve the problem of going out of sync if my code to push to the Kafka stream is entirely down and I miss POSTs.

(And, of course, I don't want Kafka. I want Google PubSub. No, wait, I mean SQS. No, wait, I mean I want zeroMQ. No, I mean....)