Agent Engineering
Out-of-Order Delivery
Receiving messages in a sequence different from the relevant producer or business sequence. Networks, retries, and concurrent consumers can make arrival order unsuitable for deciding current state. Applications must define their ordering scope and distinguish complete state snapshots from dependent operations that cannot safely be skipped or rearranged.
Also called: Message reordering
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