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Redis keys need owners
A shared Redis instance had accumulated locks, claims, counters, and flags with no common ownership or expiry rules. A small registry turned those anonymous keys into named coordination primitives with explicit failure behavior.
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Delayed delivery without unbounded queues
A fixed binary ladder turns arbitrary delivery delays into bounded RabbitMQ topology with message TTLs, dead-letter routing, and powers of two, without plugins.