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A single malformed message is crashing your Kafka consumer every time it retries and re-reads the same message. How do you handle this poison pill?

Tests whether you know to route unprocessable messages to a dead-letter topic instead of blocking the whole partition indefinitely.

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A single malformed message is crashing your Kafka consumer every time it retries and re-reads the same message. How do you handle this poison pill?

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