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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.