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What is a Dead Letter Topic? How do you handle poison messages?
Tests whether you know a DLT is where messages that repeatedly fail processing get routed after a retry limit, so one malformed 'poison' message can't block the partition forever -- letting the consumer move on while the bad message is quarantined for manual inspection.
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