It was kind of a toy problem, but I had a lot of fun with consul’s versioning data and making requests that didn’t return until the data had changed. It’s like GetIfModified but you can set it up with a delay if the data has not already been modified.

I don’t think it’s particularly good for multi-get but I didn’t get that far.

There are systems where you can report what you’ve seen so far when you reconnect, but those require a very different architecture on the sending end because it’s not just a streaming data situation at that point. And while it’s more efficient to store the data to derive the replay than to store the replay itself, it’s not infinitely moreso and a three hour network hardware problem could really ruin your entire week.