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Idempotent Background Jobs: Retries, Locks, Exactly-Once
Exactly-once processing does not exist in distributed systems — here is how to design background jobs that survive retries, crashes and duplicate deliveries.
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Exactly-once processing does not exist in distributed systems — here is how to design background jobs that survive retries, crashes and duplicate deliveries.
Not everything belongs in the request-response cycle — queues, workers, retries, and dead letter patterns for reliable background processing.