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How would you handle Kafka poison messages, retries, DLT/DLQ and offsets?
Tests whether you'd cap retry attempts with backoff before routing an unprocessable message to a dead-letter topic, and that you only advance the offset after that decision -- never block the partition retrying the same poison message forever.
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