intermediateKafka Transactions & Exactly-Once Semantics

What two separate mechanisms combine to give Kafka exactly-once semantics?

The idempotent producer (deduplicates retried sends via sequence numbers) and Kafka transactions (atomically group multiple writes, including offset commits, together).

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