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Handling Background Jobs Safely

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Reliable workers need idempotency, retries, timeouts, and useful failure visibility.

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Reliable workers need idempotency, retries, timeouts, and useful failure visibility.

Make the expected behavior explicit at the system boundary and handle invalid or repeated requests safely.

Add focused automated coverage for the failure cases. Review operational signals after release and simplify the design where maintenance becomes difficult.

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