fix: ack the dropped messages as well (#603)

Signed-off-by: ashwinidulams <[email protected]>

pkg/reduce/readloop/readloop.go

@@ -181,6 +181,9 @@ messagesLoop:
 				metrics.LabelPipeline:           rl.pipelineName,
 				metrics.LabelVertexReplicaIndex: strconv.Itoa(int(rl.vertexReplica)),
 				LabelReason:                     "late"}).Inc()
+
+			// mark it as a successfully written message as the message will be acked to avoid subsequent retries
+			writtenMessages = append(writtenMessages, message)
 			continue
 		}