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~~In order to use Kafka as the message broker within an Event Source architecture, it becomes essential that Kafka is able to reconstruct the current state of the events in a "most recent snapshot" approach.~~

This is where log compaction becomes an integral part of the workflow, as only the latest state is of interest. At the moment, Kafka accomplishes this by considering the insertion order (or highest offset) as a representation of the latest state.

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