Daily System Design Challenge

A globally distributed payment platform experiences a temporary network partition.

Both regions continue accepting payments independently.

When connectivity is restored, the same account shows two different balances.

What's the MOST likely architectural mistake?

A. Multiple leaders accepted writes during the partition

B. Kafka producer retries duplicated events

C. Cache invalidation failed

D. Database indexes became corrupted

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