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Fallbacks allow systems to handle failures safely and maintain user experience.

Exponential backoff helps manage retries by increasing wait times to reduce system overload.

Cascading failures occur when one service's failure impacts others, causing widespread issues.

Older offsets can overwrite newer ones in Kafka if not handled properly.

The Transactional Outbox Pattern ensures database updates and event publishing are synchronized to avoid losing events.

Cache breakdowns can overwhelm databases, but request coalescing solves this issue.

Kafka consumers resume processing from the last committed offset after a crash.

Eager rebalancing revokes all assignments, while cooperative allows incremental changes.