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One percent of queue messages fail processing forever and the dead-letter queue grows daily. What is your playbook?

A dead-letter queue with no owner is a landfill with a nicer name. Triage discipline separates teams that recover messages from teams that archive regret.

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A dead-letter queue with no owner is a landfill with a nicer name. Triage discipline separates teams that recover messages from teams that archive regret.

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