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Backend & systems·Queues, streams and delivery semantics

you fixed the bug and reset the consumer back to last Tuesday so it processes the last week of events again correctly.

Replay

Also calledreprocessing, offset reset

Re-reading retained messages from an earlier position to rebuild state or recover from a processing bug. It is one of the main reasons to choose a log over a queue. It also re-triggers every side effect the consumer performs, so a consumer that sends emails needs a replay mode before you ever need to replay it.

Commonly confused with