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Event-Driven Failure Handling

Design for event failures

Handling failures in event-driven systems requires retry policies with backoff, dead-letter queues for poison messages, idempotent handlers, and event-level tracing/metrics to detect and replay safely.

Retry Safely

Backoff with caps; classify retryable vs fatal errors.

Dead Letters

Route poison messages to DLQs with context and alerts.

Observe

Trace events; track lag/failures; support replay paths.

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