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A job enriches order events with customer tier by looking up a table built from a compacted topic. After a routine deploy, 3% of orders in the first ten minutes come out with tier null, then the rate returns to zero. Throughput and error rate are flat. What is happening?

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A job enriches order events with customer tier by looking up a table built from a compacted topic. After a routine deploy, 3% of orders in the first ten minutes come out with tier null, then the rate returns to zero. Throughput and error rate are flat. What is happening?