Silent data loss in Celery-RabbitMQ setup on Azure Container Apps traced to config error

A backend engineering team experienced a production incident where a subset of write operations silently disappeared despite the system returning 202 Accepted responses and showing no errors. The application used a FastAPI, Celery, and RabbitMQ stack deployed across three services on Azure Container Apps. Every component appeared healthy — the message broker, containers, and application code — yet specific data was never persisted to the database. After days of investigation, the root cause was identified as a stale configuration field on a cloud platform resource that prevented the Celery worker from consuming the correct queues. The incident highlights a critical failure mode in microservices architectures where message consumers silently stop listening without triggering any visible alerts or errors.
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