Production Design for Order Timeout Closure: RabbitMQ Delay Queues, Idempotent State Machine
This article presents a production‑grade architecture for automatically closing unpaid orders, detailing why simple scheduled tasks are insufficient, outlining high‑risk scenarios, defining five core objectives, comparing implementation options, and providing a complete RabbitMQ TTL + DLX solution with state‑machine idempotency, high‑concurrency handling, observability, and Kubernetes deployment guidance.
