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1. not writing the same buffer multiple times (when the job is backpressured); can be addressed by implementing incremental checkpointing for FS backend
2. incremental loading and processing of state
3. no additional memory to load channel state: ideally, existing network buffers should be reused
4. reduced number of files: single file could be reused for several checkpoints 

Compatibility, Deprecation, and Migration Plan

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