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Munir Hassan
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3 Oct 2026
Don't build business logic on an expiry notification
A background process that was going to be triggered by a cache telling us a key had expired. Why that's fragile, the queue-and-scheduler design we chose instead, and why we deliberately stopped short of a full event-driven rebuild.
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