advancedCapstone — A Fault-Tolerant Order-Payment System

5. "How do you guarantee the 'order placed' event is never lost, even if Kafka is briefly down?" (90 seconds)

Outbox Pattern with CDC (Chapter 18) — write to a local outbox table atomically with the order, relay independently.

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