Design a Kafka-based file watcher for millions of files

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Design a file watcher that tracks millions of files and publishes change events to downstream consumers through Kafka. Cover the first full discovery of files, ongoing changes, the order of events, recovery after a crash, and how you catch changes that the operating system's file notifications miss.

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