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11.33External IDs are even more valuable in bulk

Imagine bulk job times out from Mule's perspective.

You don't know whether Salesforce processed some/all records.

If you're using:

CREATE

replay can create duplicates.

If you're using:

UPSERT
by External_Customer_ID__c

replay is much safer.

Same idempotency principle, now at scale.