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Fault Tolerance in Data Pipelines

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You're planning a new data pipeline and want to think through how it behaves when parts of the system fail. The goal is to avoid duplicate data, silent data loss, and long recovery times when jobs, workers, or upstream sources break.

Question

How would you implement fault tolerance in a distributed system?