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Learn why reliable event-driven systems also need replayability and how Recovery Contracts improve confidence in Kafka-based architectures.
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This article argues that reliable event-driven systems should be designed for replayability as well as uptime. It introduces the concept of Recovery Contracts, a framework for defining authoritative history, replay boundaries, reconciliation checks, and recovery evidence so teams can rebuild state with confidence after failures.