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What are resumable change streams and why are they critical for event-driven architectures?

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Quick Answer Resumable change streams let you restart a change stream after failure from exactly where it left off using a resume token. Save the resume token with each processed event. On restart, pass startAfter: . This guarantees at-least-once processing. Critical for event-driven architectures where missing events would cause data inconsistency downstream.

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Change streams resume from a resumeToken or clusterTime, ensuring fault-tolerant event processing with no data loss or duplication.
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