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Designing Idempotent Task Consumers

Updated May 4, 2026

Short answer

Ensuring tasks can be safely retried without side effects.

Deep explanation

Architecturing workers (Celery/RQ) to use 'Upsert' logic or deduplication keys in a database to prevent duplicate processing during network failures.

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