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+🚀 Takeoff Mailer
+A high-performance, resilient email consumer built in Rust to handle transactional email delivery for the TAKEOFF event.
+This service implements a decoupled, event-driven architecture using RabbitMQ for reliable message delivery and Protobuf for strict schema enforcement.
+🏗 System Architecture
+The mailer is designed with a "Reliability First" philosophy to ensure no attendee ever misses a QR code or confirmation.
+ * Asynchronous Processing: Offloads email sending from the main API to a dedicated Rust worker.
+ * Protocol Buffers: Uses email.proto to ensure data integrity between the Node.js producer and Rust consumer.
+ * DLX (Dead Letter Exchange): Features an automated "Hospital" queue (email_failed_queue) for messages that fail after maximum retries or fail decoding.
+🛠 Tech Stack
+ * Language: Rust (Tokio runtime)
+ * Broker: RabbitMQ (via lapin)
+ * Serialization: Google Protocol Buffers (prost)
+ * Monitoring: Datadog (Metrics/Traces) & Dozzle (Logs)
+ * Deployment: Docker / VPS
+🚦 Getting Started
+Prerequisites
+ * Rust 1.75+
+ * protoc (Protobuf Compiler)
+ * Docker & Docker Compose
+Environment Variables
+Create a .env file in the root directory:
+AMQP_ADDR=amqp://guest:guest@localhost:5672/%2f
+SMTP_RELAY=smtp.example.com
+SMTP_USER=user@example.com
+SMTP_PASS=password
+RUST_LOG=info
+
+Running Locally
+ * Start RabbitMQ:
+   docker compose up -d rabbitmq
+
+ * Run the Worker:
+   cargo run
+
+🏥 Fault Tolerance & Recovery
+This repo includes a built-in recovery "stitch" for handling failures:
+The Dead Letter Pattern
+If a message fails delivery 3 times, it is automatically routed to the email_failed_queue. This prevents "Poison Pill" messages from clogging the main pipeline.
+
+📊 Observability
+This service is fully instrumented for production visibility:
+ * Health Checks: Integrated with Docker health checks.
+ * Unified Tagging: Tags every log and metric with env:takeoff-prod and service:email-worker.
+ * Dashboard: Real-time throughput and error rates are monitored via Datadog.
+📜 License
+Distributed under the MIT License. See LICENSE for more information.
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