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Weekly Incident · Nov 9, 2026

The job that two workers both completed

A queue retry races with another worker and applies the same side effect twice.

JavaScriptHardAbout 35 minutes

A curated Buglyst lab with executable checks. Fictional scenario; no live production system.

Your investigation

Reconstruct two workers acting on the same delivery.

A single queued job creates duplicate downstream notifications during retry or concurrency.

  1. Inspect the incident evidence and files. Reproduce the failure.
  2. Fix the cause. Run Checks, then Submit for private validation.
  3. Return here for the free debrief and a different exercise using the same skill.
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