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A microservice goes down while processing an order. How should the system handle it?

Tests whether you design for partial-failure recovery -- persisting state transitions so the order isn't lost, using a message queue for retry/replay, and compensating actions for any already-completed steps -- not assuming the in-flight request can just be retried as-is.

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