The in-memory dedup is now only a fast path; the square_webhook_events INSERT ... ON CONFLICT DO NOTHING is the source of truth, so replays across restarts and after FIFO eviction are skipped. A DB failure fails closed with 503 so Square retries. Empty event_ids are rejected with 400 (no dispatch, no dedup row). Ordering trade-off (insert-before-dispatch) documented for when handlers mutate state.