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Service C succeeds but times out before B gets the response (A to B to C). Design an idempotent workflow for when B retries.

Tests whether you design C's endpoint to accept an idempotency key (generated once by A and passed through), so a retried call from B returns the already-recorded result instead of executing the side effect twice.

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