Status: IN
Both message queues and distributed deletion model operations as logical abstractions decoupled from physical storage: offsets survive partition trimming, tombstones survive replication, and dead-letter queues are just regular topics — the semantic layer insulates consumers from storage implementation changes and physical state evolution.
Message offsets and deletion metadata both create semantic layers that decouple consumers from physical storage state
Depends on (SL): queue-abstraction-is-logical-not-physical, deletion-is-metadata-in-replicated-systems