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What happens if the message queue goes down?
Tests whether you know producers should buffer or fail gracefully (not block indefinitely) and that the broader design question is whether your system can tolerate delayed delivery -- a message queue outage degrades the async parts of your system, so critical sync paths shouldn't depend on it being up.
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