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Could be completely off base, but isn't this the equivalent of polling a Provider's commit log or distributed log? So accessing a third party's Apache Kafka?

Yep! And since your partner will be unlikely to build a new architecture on the request of one customer, you should 'do the Kafka thing' on your end, capture everything (double-sends and all), then smartly query your events, rather than try to program correct double-send-friendly db updates.

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