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A booking worker crashes after a provider commits but before the local result is stored. The provider's idempotency record expires tomorrow. Write a recovery plan for today and for next week.
1Give yourself 5 minutes
2Answer out loud, not in your head
3Then compare with the answer below
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How do two workers avoid conflicting recovery?
What if the provider has no lookup?
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