Add Kafka consumer recovery contracts article

[ishandshah]

Adds a Foojay Today article draft:

Testing Kafka Consumer Recovery Contracts With Testcontainers and JUnit

The article covers:

• Kafka consumer recovery contracts
• Duplicate delivery and idempotency keys
• Malformed-record routing to a dead-letter topic
• Failure between business side effect and offset commit
• Testcontainers and JUnit as the test harness

Validated locally after rebasing on upstream main:

jbang scripts/validate/Frontmatter.java --changed-since upstream/main
hugo --gc --minify
jbang scripts/validate/BuiltSite.java

The sample project referenced by the article has also been verified locally:

Tests run: 3, Failures: 0, Errors: 0, Skipped: 0
BUILD SUCCESS

Also includes an author profile for ishan-shah if that profile does not already exist.

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  • Added an author profile for Ishan Shah, including biography, avatar, and social links.
  • Added a technical article on testing Kafka consumer recovery with Testcontainers and JUnit 5.
  • The article covers duplicate delivery, malformed-record handling, crash recovery, idempotency, and verification practices.

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Adds an author profile and a draft article that documents Kafka consumer recovery contracts, Testcontainers setup, JUnit scenarios, bounded assertions, test limitations, and a verification checklist.

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Kafka recovery testing article

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Publication metadata content/authors/ishan-shah/_index.md, draft/testing-kafka-consumer-recovery-contracts-with-testcontainers-and-junit/index.md	Adds the Ishan Shah author profile and article front matter with author, image, date, description, and categories.
Recovery contract and test harness draft/testing-kafka-consumer-recovery-contracts-with-testcontainers-and-junit/index.md	Defines recovery-contract checks for side effects, offsets, idempotency, malformed records, and failure evidence. Documents Maven dependencies and a JUnit 5 KafkaContainer setup.
Recovery scenarios and guidance draft/testing-kafka-consumer-recovery-contracts-with-testcontainers-and-junit/index.md	Documents duplicate delivery, dead-letter routing, crash-before-commit redelivery, bounded waits, test limitations, and a recovery-test checklist.

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Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Other

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 2616b

The article's sample project cannot compile as documented, and its recovery tests can pass without exercising duplicate delivery or redelivery. Add the missing dependencies and strengthen the scenario assertions before merging.

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`@draft/testing-kafka-consumer-recovery-contracts-with-testcontainers-and-junit/index.md`:
- Around line 128-135: Strengthen the recovery assertions in the
duplicate-consumption test around projectionStore by asserting that both records
were consumed, not only that the final total and applied-event count are
unchanged. In the restart test at
draft/testing-kafka-consumer-recovery-contracts-with-testcontainers-and-junit/index.md
lines 200-205, assert after the first attempt that the offset remains
uncommitted, then assert the second attempt consumed evt-2 while
appliedEventCount remains 1.
- Around line 61-89: Add test-scoped dependencies for org.awaitility:awaitility
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[ishandshah]

Addressed the review comments in 81ae3e11a:

• Added the missing test-scoped assertj-core and awaitility dependencies to the Maven snippet.
• Strengthened the duplicate-delivery example to assert that both records were consumed.
• Strengthened the crash-before-offset-commit example to assert the first attempt consumed evt-2, left the committed offset absent, and the second attempt consumed the redelivered evt-2 while preserving one business side effect.

Validated locally:

./replay-safe-demo/mvnw -Dmaven.repo.local=article-submissions.local/next-platform-submissions-2026-09-13/.m2 -f article-submissions.local/next-platform-submissions-2026-09-13/kafka-recovery-contracts-sample/pom.xml test
Tests run: 3, Failures: 0, Errors: 0, Skipped: 0
BUILD SUCCESS

jbang scripts/validate/Frontmatter.java --changed-since upstream/main
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hugo --gc --minify
BUILD SUCCESS

jbang scripts/validate/BuiltSite.java
OK -- every source page was built and every link the site itself emits resolves.

Note: the built-site validator still reports 7 pre-existing author-written dead links in unrelated posts, but marks them non-blocking.