THIS IS A TEST INSTANCE. ALL YOUR CHANGES WILL BE LOST!!!!
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The only source of truth for offsets in consume-then-send pattern is target cluster. The offsets should only be committed after having received the confirmation from the target cluster. For the new producer, the confirmation is the ACK from end usertarget cluster.
In that sense the consumer's offsets auto-commits should be turned off, and the offsets will be committed after a future associated with a message is received.
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