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During a Kafka partition rebalance, you notice some messages get processed more than once. Why does this happen and how do you handle it?

Tests whether you know rebalances can reassign a partition before an offset commit lands, and why consumer-side idempotency is the real fix.

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During a Kafka partition rebalance, you notice some messages get processed more than once. Why does this happen and how do you handle it?

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