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How do you make Kafka consumers idempotent? Messages are processed twice after a consumer restart; what do you do?
Tests whether you reach for tracking processed message IDs (a dedup table with a unique constraint, or an upsert keyed by business ID) so reprocessing the same message after a restart is a no-op rather than a duplicate side effect.
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