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Design Kafka-based retry and dead-letter handling
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Design Kafka-based retry and dead-letter handling
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Design Kafka-based retry and dead-letter handling
High-Level Approach
Partition by key, idempotent consumers, retry topic with backoff, DLQ with alerting.