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Design a microservices system integrating Kafka.
Asked in the Managerial stage. Reported follow-up: Explain Kafka's internal working.
Describe the architecture, service boundaries, event flows, Kafka topic and partition strategy, delivery guarantees, failure handling, deployment model, and observability approach. Explain how you would handle schema evolution, retries, duplicate events, consumer lag, and service recovery.