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How would you design a notification/event-driven system (Kafka + consumers) for payments?
Tests whether you partition by user/account ID to preserve per-user ordering, make consumers idempotent for safe retries, and separate the payment-processing topic from a fan-out notification topic so a slow email provider can't back up payment processing.
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