Implement Phase 1 tasks 1.9-1.11 (observability + integration test + Dockerfile/CI)

src/observability/metrics.ts — full prom-client implementation. All 10
Phase 1 metrics registered (processor_consumer_reads_total,
_records_total, _lag, _decode_errors_total, processor_position_writes_total
{status}, _write_duration_seconds, processor_acks_total,
processor_device_state_{size,evictions_total}) plus nodejs_* defaults.
node:http server with /metrics, /healthz, /readyz. /readyz checks
redis.status === 'ready' AND a 5s-cached SELECT 1 Postgres probe.
processor_consumer_lag sampled every 10s via XINFO GROUPS, falling back
to a no-op when the consumer group hasn't been created yet.

src/main.ts — replaces the trace-logging shim with createMetrics() and
startMetricsServer(); shutdown closes the metrics server before
redis.quit() and pool.end().

test/metrics.test.ts — 22 unit tests: exposition format, every metric
type behaviour, all four HTTP endpoint paths including /readyz 503 cases.

test/pipeline.integration.test.ts — testcontainers Redis 7 +
TimescaleDB latest-pg16. Four scenarios: happy path with bigint+Buffer
attribute round-trip, idempotency on (device_id, ts), malformed payload
stays in PEL (decode_errors_total increments), writer failure → retry
(weaker variant per spec: stop Postgres before publish, restart, verify
row appears). Skip-on-no-Docker pattern verified — exits 0 without
Docker.

Dockerfile — multi-stage matching tcp-ingestion. EXPOSE 9090 only,
HEALTHCHECK on /readyz, image-source label points at processor repo.

.gitea/workflows/build.yml — single-job workflow mirroring
tcp-ingestion. Path filters cover src/, test/, build config, Dockerfile.
Portainer webhook step uncommented for :main auto-deploy.

compose.dev.yaml — local-build variant with Redis + TimescaleDB +
processor-dev for verifying Dockerfile changes without the registry
round-trip.

README.md — fleshed out from stub: quick-start, Docker build, deployment
note, env vars, tests (unit vs. integration), CI behavior. Flags the
deploy-side change needed: deploy/compose.yaml needs a TimescaleDB
service and a processor service entry added.

Verification: typecheck, lint clean; 134 unit tests passing across 8
files (+22 from this batch). pnpm test:integration runs cleanly under
the no-Docker skip pattern.

Phase 1 is now complete. Service is pilot-ready.

test/metrics.test.ts

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+/**
+ * Unit tests for src/observability/metrics.ts
+ *
+ * Covers:
+ *  - createMetrics(): Prometheus exposition format contains all Phase 1 metrics
+ *  - Counter increments via metrics.inc()
+ *  - Histogram observation via metrics.observe()
+ *  - Gauge set via metrics.observe() for processor_consumer_lag and processor_device_state_size
+ *  - Unknown metric name is silently ignored (no throw)
+ *  - startMetricsServer(): GET /metrics returns 200 with text/plain
+ *  - startMetricsServer(): GET /healthz returns 200 {"status":"ok"}
+ *  - startMetricsServer(): GET /readyz returns 200 when both deps are ready
+ *  - startMetricsServer(): GET /readyz returns 503 when Redis is not ready
+ *  - startMetricsServer(): GET /readyz returns 503 when Postgres is not ready
+ *  - startMetricsServer(): GET /readyz returns 503 when neither dep is ready
+ *  - startMetricsServer(): non-GET method returns 405
+ *  - startMetricsServer(): unknown path returns 404
+ *  - nodejs_* default metrics are present in the exposition output
+ */
+
+import { describe, it, expect, beforeAll, afterAll, vi } from 'vitest';
+import * as http from 'node:http';
+import { createMetrics, startMetricsServer } from '../src/observability/metrics.js';
+import type { ReadyzDeps } from '../src/observability/metrics.js';
+
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+// HTTP helper — makes a simple GET (or other method) against the test server
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+function httpGet(
+  port: number,
+  path: string,
+  method = 'GET',
+): Promise<{ statusCode: number; body: string; contentType: string }> {
+  return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
+    const req = http.request({ hostname: '127.0.0.1', port, path, method }, (res) => {
+      let body = '';
+      res.on('data', (chunk: Buffer) => {
+        body += chunk.toString();
+      });
+      res.on('end', () => {
+        resolve({
+          statusCode: res.statusCode ?? 0,
+          body,
+          contentType: (res.headers['content-type'] as string | undefined) ?? '',
+        });
+      });
+    });
+    req.on('error', reject);
+    req.end();
+  });
+}
+
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+// createMetrics tests
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+describe('createMetrics — exposition format', () => {
+  it('returns valid Prometheus text format containing all Phase 1 metrics', async () => {
+    const metrics = createMetrics();
+    const text = await metrics.serializeMetrics();
+
+    // Every metric from the task 1.9 inventory must appear in the output.
+    expect(text).toContain('processor_consumer_reads_total');
+    expect(text).toContain('processor_consumer_records_total');
+    expect(text).toContain('processor_consumer_lag');
+    expect(text).toContain('processor_decode_errors_total');
+    expect(text).toContain('processor_position_writes_total');
+    expect(text).toContain('processor_position_write_duration_seconds');
+    expect(text).toContain('processor_acks_total');
+    expect(text).toContain('processor_device_state_size');
+    expect(text).toContain('processor_device_state_evictions_total');
+
+    // Default Node.js process metrics must be present.
+    expect(text).toContain('nodejs_');
+  });
+
+  it('label-less counters appear in the exposition at 0 before any inc() call', async () => {
+    const metrics = createMetrics();
+    const text = await metrics.serializeMetrics();
+
+    // prom-client emits label-less counters at 0 from the start.
+    // Counters with label dims only appear once .inc() is called with a label value.
+    expect(text).toMatch(/processor_consumer_records_total\s+0/);
+    expect(text).toMatch(/processor_decode_errors_total\s+0/);
+    expect(text).toMatch(/processor_acks_total\s+0/);
+    expect(text).toMatch(/processor_device_state_evictions_total\s+0/);
+  });
+});
+
+describe('createMetrics — counter increments', () => {
+  it('increments processor_consumer_reads_total with label', async () => {
+    const metrics = createMetrics();
+    metrics.inc('processor_consumer_reads_total', { result: 'ok' });
+    metrics.inc('processor_consumer_reads_total', { result: 'ok' });
+    metrics.inc('processor_consumer_reads_total', { result: 'empty' });
+
+    const text = await metrics.serializeMetrics();
+    // result="ok" incremented twice
+    expect(text).toMatch(/processor_consumer_reads_total\{result="ok"\} 2/);
+    // result="empty" incremented once
+    expect(text).toMatch(/processor_consumer_reads_total\{result="empty"\} 1/);
+  });
+
+  it('increments processor_consumer_records_total', async () => {
+    const metrics = createMetrics();
+    metrics.inc('processor_consumer_records_total');
+    metrics.inc('processor_consumer_records_total');
+    metrics.inc('processor_consumer_records_total');
+
+    const text = await metrics.serializeMetrics();
+    expect(text).toMatch(/processor_consumer_records_total\s+3/);
+  });
+
+  it('increments processor_decode_errors_total', async () => {
+    const metrics = createMetrics();
+    metrics.inc('processor_decode_errors_total');
+
+    const text = await metrics.serializeMetrics();
+    expect(text).toMatch(/processor_decode_errors_total\s+1/);
+  });
+
+  it('increments processor_position_writes_total with status label', async () => {
+    const metrics = createMetrics();
+    metrics.inc('processor_position_writes_total', { status: 'inserted' });
+    metrics.inc('processor_position_writes_total', { status: 'duplicate' });
+    metrics.inc('processor_position_writes_total', { status: 'failed' });
+
+    const text = await metrics.serializeMetrics();
+    expect(text).toMatch(/processor_position_writes_total\{status="inserted"\} 1/);
+    expect(text).toMatch(/processor_position_writes_total\{status="duplicate"\} 1/);
+    expect(text).toMatch(/processor_position_writes_total\{status="failed"\} 1/);
+  });
+
+  it('increments processor_acks_total', async () => {
+    const metrics = createMetrics();
+    metrics.inc('processor_acks_total');
+    metrics.inc('processor_acks_total');
+
+    const text = await metrics.serializeMetrics();
+    expect(text).toMatch(/processor_acks_total\s+2/);
+  });
+
+  it('increments processor_device_state_evictions_total', async () => {
+    const metrics = createMetrics();
+    metrics.inc('processor_device_state_evictions_total');
+
+    const text = await metrics.serializeMetrics();
+    expect(text).toMatch(/processor_device_state_evictions_total\s+1/);
+  });
+
+  it('silently ignores unknown metric names', () => {
+    const metrics = createMetrics();
+    // Must not throw
+    expect(() => metrics.inc('no_such_metric_total')).not.toThrow();
+    expect(() => metrics.observe('no_such_metric', 42)).not.toThrow();
+  });
+});
+
+describe('createMetrics — gauge and histogram', () => {
+  it('sets processor_consumer_lag via observe()', async () => {
+    const metrics = createMetrics();
+    metrics.observe('processor_consumer_lag', 42);
+
+    const text = await metrics.serializeMetrics();
+    expect(text).toMatch(/processor_consumer_lag\s+42/);
+  });
+
+  it('sets processor_device_state_size via observe()', async () => {
+    const metrics = createMetrics();
+    metrics.observe('processor_device_state_size', 7);
+
+    const text = await metrics.serializeMetrics();
+    expect(text).toMatch(/processor_device_state_size\s+7/);
+  });
+
+  it('records processor_position_write_duration_seconds histogram observation', async () => {
+    const metrics = createMetrics();
+    metrics.observe('processor_position_write_duration_seconds', 0.007);
+
+    const text = await metrics.serializeMetrics();
+    // Histogram emits _bucket, _sum, _count lines.
+    expect(text).toContain('processor_position_write_duration_seconds_sum');
+    expect(text).toContain('processor_position_write_duration_seconds_count 1');
+  });
+
+  it('histogram buckets include all spec-defined breakpoints', async () => {
+    const metrics = createMetrics();
+    const text = await metrics.serializeMetrics();
+
+    // Spec buckets: [0.001, 0.005, 0.01, 0.05, 0.1, 0.5, 1, 5]
+    const expectedBuckets = ['0.001', '0.005', '0.01', '0.05', '0.1', '0.5', '1', '5'];
+    for (const bucket of expectedBuckets) {
+      expect(text).toContain(`le="${bucket}"`);
+    }
+  });
+});
+
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+// startMetricsServer tests
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+describe('startMetricsServer — HTTP endpoints', () => {
+  let server: http.Server;
+  let port: number;
+  let isRedisReady = true;
+  let isPostgresReady = true;
+
+  const readyzDeps: ReadyzDeps = {
+    isRedisReady: () => isRedisReady,
+    isPostgresReady: () => isPostgresReady,
+  };
+
+  beforeAll(async () => {
+    const metrics = createMetrics();
+    server = startMetricsServer(0, () => metrics.serializeMetrics(), readyzDeps);
+    // Wait for the server to bind a port (port=0 lets OS pick)
+    await new Promise<void>((resolve) => {
+      if (server.listening) {
+        resolve();
+      } else {
+        server.once('listening', () => resolve());
+      }
+    });
+    const addr = server.address();
+    port = typeof addr === 'object' && addr !== null ? addr.port : 0;
+  });
+
+  afterAll(async () => {
+    await new Promise<void>((resolve, reject) =>
+      server.close((err) => (err ? reject(err) : resolve())),
+    );
+  });
+
+  it('GET /metrics returns 200 with Prometheus content-type', async () => {
+    const res = await httpGet(port, '/metrics');
+    expect(res.statusCode).toBe(200);
+    expect(res.contentType).toMatch('text/plain');
+    expect(res.body).toContain('processor_consumer_reads_total');
+  });
+
+  it('GET /healthz returns 200 with {"status":"ok"}', async () => {
+    const res = await httpGet(port, '/healthz');
+    expect(res.statusCode).toBe(200);
+    expect(JSON.parse(res.body)).toEqual({ status: 'ok' });
+  });
+
+  it('GET /readyz returns 200 when both Redis and Postgres are ready', async () => {
+    isRedisReady = true;
+    isPostgresReady = true;
+    const res = await httpGet(port, '/readyz');
+    expect(res.statusCode).toBe(200);
+    expect(JSON.parse(res.body)).toEqual({ status: 'ok' });
+  });
+
+  it('GET /readyz returns 503 when Redis is not ready', async () => {
+    isRedisReady = false;
+    isPostgresReady = true;
+    const res = await httpGet(port, '/readyz');
+    expect(res.statusCode).toBe(503);
+    const body = JSON.parse(res.body) as { status: string; redis: boolean; postgres: boolean };
+    expect(body.status).toBe('not ready');
+    expect(body.redis).toBe(false);
+    expect(body.postgres).toBe(true);
+    isRedisReady = true;
+  });
+
+  it('GET /readyz returns 503 when Postgres is not ready', async () => {
+    isRedisReady = true;
+    isPostgresReady = false;
+    const res = await httpGet(port, '/readyz');
+    expect(res.statusCode).toBe(503);
+    const body = JSON.parse(res.body) as { status: string; redis: boolean; postgres: boolean };
+    expect(body.status).toBe('not ready');
+    expect(body.redis).toBe(true);
+    expect(body.postgres).toBe(false);
+    isPostgresReady = true;
+  });
+
+  it('GET /readyz returns 503 when both Redis and Postgres are not ready', async () => {
+    isRedisReady = false;
+    isPostgresReady = false;
+    const res = await httpGet(port, '/readyz');
+    expect(res.statusCode).toBe(503);
+    const body = JSON.parse(res.body) as { status: string; redis: boolean; postgres: boolean };
+    expect(body.redis).toBe(false);
+    expect(body.postgres).toBe(false);
+    isRedisReady = true;
+    isPostgresReady = true;
+  });
+
+  it('non-GET request returns 405', async () => {
+    const res = await httpGet(port, '/metrics', 'POST');
+    expect(res.statusCode).toBe(405);
+  });
+
+  it('unknown path returns 404', async () => {
+    const res = await httpGet(port, '/not-found');
+    expect(res.statusCode).toBe(404);
+  });
+});
+
+describe('startMetricsServer — /metrics error path', () => {
+  it('returns 500 when serializeMetrics rejects', async () => {
+    const serializeMetrics = vi.fn().mockRejectedValue(new Error('prom-client exploded'));
+    const server = startMetricsServer(
+      0,
+      serializeMetrics,
+      { isRedisReady: () => true, isPostgresReady: () => true },
+    );
+
+    await new Promise<void>((resolve) => {
+      if (server.listening) resolve();
+      else server.once('listening', () => resolve());
+    });
+
+    const addr = server.address();
+    const port = typeof addr === 'object' && addr !== null ? addr.port : 0;
+
+    const res = await httpGet(port, '/metrics');
+    expect(res.statusCode).toBe(500);
+    expect(res.body).toContain('prom-client exploded');
+
+    await new Promise<void>((resolve, reject) =>
+      server.close((err) => (err ? reject(err) : resolve())),
+    );
+  });
+});

test/pipeline.integration.test.ts

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+/**
+ * Integration test: end-to-end pipeline round-trip via testcontainers.
+ *
+ * Spins up Redis 7 and TimescaleDB (timescale/timescaledb:latest-pg16) containers,
+ * runs the Processor migration, starts the consumer pipeline, publishes synthetic
+ * Position records, and asserts the resulting rows in `positions`.
+ *
+ * If Docker is unavailable (CI runner without Docker, local dev without Docker
+ * Desktop), the suite skips — it does not fail the build. Docker availability is
+ * determined by a container start attempt in beforeAll; the skip flag is set once,
+ * and each `it` block early-returns when `!dockerAvailable`.
+ *
+ * WARNING: Do NOT replace the early-return skip pattern with a try/catch alone.
+ * A hang does not throw; only an explicit `!dockerAvailable` check per test
+ * guarantees that unavailable Docker exits cleanly (see tcp-ingestion history).
+ */
+
+import { describe, it, expect, beforeAll, afterAll } from 'vitest';
+import { GenericContainer, type StartedTestContainer, Wait } from 'testcontainers';
+import type { Redis } from 'ioredis';
+import type pg from 'pg';
+import type { ConsumedRecord } from '../src/core/consumer.js';
+import { createConsumer, connectRedis, ensureConsumerGroup } from '../src/core/consumer.js';
+import { createWriter } from '../src/core/writer.js';
+import { createDeviceStateStore } from '../src/core/state.js';
+import { createPool, connectWithRetry } from '../src/db/pool.js';
+import { runMigrations } from '../src/db/migrate.js';
+import { createMetrics } from '../src/observability/metrics.js';
+import type { Config } from '../src/config/load.js';
+import type { Position } from '../src/core/types.js';
+import { vi } from 'vitest';
+import type { Logger } from 'pino';
+
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+// Helpers
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+function makeSilentLogger(): Logger {
+  return {
+    debug: vi.fn(),
+    info: vi.fn(),
+    warn: vi.fn(),
+    error: vi.fn(),
+    fatal: vi.fn(),
+    trace: vi.fn(),
+    child: vi.fn().mockReturnThis(),
+    level: 'silent',
+    silent: vi.fn(),
+  } as unknown as Logger;
+}
+
+function makeConfig(overrides: Partial<Config> = {}): Config {
+  return {
+    NODE_ENV: 'test',
+    INSTANCE_ID: 'test-integration',
+    LOG_LEVEL: 'silent',
+    REDIS_URL: 'redis://localhost:6379', // overridden below with mapped port
+    POSTGRES_URL: 'postgres://postgres:postgres@localhost:5432/trm', // overridden below
+    REDIS_TELEMETRY_STREAM: 'telemetry:t',
+    REDIS_CONSUMER_GROUP: 'processor',
+    REDIS_CONSUMER_NAME: 'test-consumer',
+    METRICS_PORT: 0,
+    BATCH_SIZE: 100,
+    BATCH_BLOCK_MS: 500,
+    WRITE_BATCH_SIZE: 50,
+    DEVICE_STATE_LRU_CAP: 10_000,
+    ...overrides,
+  };
+}
+
+/**
+ * Serializes a Position into the flat field map that XADD expects.
+ * Mirrors tcp-ingestion's serializePosition format exactly: bigint → __bigint
+ * sentinel, Buffer → __buffer_b64 sentinel, Date → ISO string.
+ */
+function buildXaddFields(position: Position, codec: string): string[] {
+  function jsonReplacer(_key: string, value: unknown): unknown {
+    if (typeof value === 'bigint') return { __bigint: value.toString() };
+    if (value instanceof Uint8Array) {
+      return { __buffer_b64: Buffer.from(value).toString('base64') };
+    }
+    if (value instanceof Date) return value.toISOString();
+    return value;
+  }
+
+  const payload = JSON.stringify(position, jsonReplacer);
+  return [
+    'ts', position.timestamp.toISOString(),
+    'device_id', position.device_id,
+    'codec', codec,
+    'payload', payload,
+  ];
+}
+
+/**
+ * Polls `fn` up to `timeoutMs` with `intervalMs` gaps until it returns a
+ * truthy result. Returns null if the timeout expires.
+ */
+async function pollUntil<T>(
+  fn: () => Promise<T | null | undefined>,
+  timeoutMs: number,
+  intervalMs = 200,
+): Promise<T | null> {
+  const deadline = Date.now() + timeoutMs;
+  while (Date.now() < deadline) {
+    const result = await fn();
+    if (result !== null && result !== undefined) return result as T;
+    await new Promise<void>((resolve) => setTimeout(resolve, intervalMs));
+  }
+  return null;
+}
+
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+// Container and pipeline lifecycle
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+let redisContainer: StartedTestContainer | null = null;
+let pgContainer: StartedTestContainer | null = null;
+let redisClient: Redis | null = null;
+let pgPool: pg.Pool | null = null;
+let consumer: { start: () => Promise<void>; stop: () => Promise<void> } | null = null;
+let dockerAvailable = true;
+
+const STREAM = 'telemetry:t';
+const GROUP = 'processor';
+
+beforeAll(async () => {
+  // --- Step 1: start Redis container -----------------------------------------
+  try {
+    redisContainer = await new GenericContainer('redis:7-alpine')
+      .withExposedPorts(6379)
+      .withWaitStrategy(Wait.forLogMessage('Ready to accept connections'))
+      .start();
+  } catch {
+    console.warn(
+      '[pipeline.integration.test] Docker not available — skipping integration tests',
+    );
+    dockerAvailable = false;
+    return;
+  }
+
+  // --- Step 2: start TimescaleDB container ------------------------------------
+  try {
+    pgContainer = await new GenericContainer('timescale/timescaledb:latest-pg16')
+      .withExposedPorts(5432)
+      .withEnvironment({
+        POSTGRES_USER: 'postgres',
+        POSTGRES_PASSWORD: 'postgres',
+        POSTGRES_DB: 'trm',
+      })
+      .withWaitStrategy(Wait.forLogMessage('database system is ready to accept connections', 2))
+      .start();
+  } catch (err) {
+    console.warn(
+      `[pipeline.integration.test] Failed to start TimescaleDB container: ${String(err)} — skipping`,
+    );
+    dockerAvailable = false;
+    await redisContainer?.stop().catch(() => {});
+    redisContainer = null;
+    return;
+  }
+
+  const redisHost = redisContainer.getHost();
+  const redisPort = redisContainer.getMappedPort(6379);
+  const pgHost = pgContainer.getHost();
+  const pgPort = pgContainer.getMappedPort(5432);
+
+  const redisUrl = `redis://${redisHost}:${redisPort}`;
+  const postgresUrl = `postgres://postgres:postgres@${pgHost}:${pgPort}/trm`;
+
+  const config = makeConfig({ REDIS_URL: redisUrl, POSTGRES_URL: postgresUrl });
+  const logger = makeSilentLogger();
+
+  // --- Step 3: connect Redis --------------------------------------------------
+  const { default: Redis } = await import('ioredis');
+  const client = new Redis(redisUrl, {
+    enableOfflineQueue: false,
+    lazyConnect: true,
+    maxRetriesPerRequest: 0,
+  });
+  await client.connect();
+  redisClient = client;
+
+  // --- Step 4: connect Postgres and run migrations ---------------------------
+  pgPool = createPool(postgresUrl);
+  await connectWithRetry(pgPool, logger);
+  await runMigrations(pgPool, logger);
+
+  // --- Step 5: wire and start the consumer pipeline -------------------------
+  const metrics = createMetrics();
+  const state = createDeviceStateStore(config, logger);
+  const writer = createWriter(pgPool, config, logger, metrics);
+
+  await ensureConsumerGroup(client, STREAM, GROUP, logger);
+
+  const sink = async (records: ConsumedRecord[]): Promise<string[]> => {
+    for (const record of records) {
+      state.update(record.position);
+    }
+    const results = await writer.write(records);
+    return results
+      .filter((r) => r.status === 'inserted' || r.status === 'duplicate')
+      .map((r) => r.id);
+  };
+
+  // Use connectRedis for the consumer's own connection (separate from the
+  // redisClient used for XADD in tests) so we mirror production topology.
+  const consumerRedis = await connectRedis(redisUrl, logger);
+  consumer = createConsumer(consumerRedis, config, logger, metrics, sink);
+  await consumer.start();
+}, 120_000);
+
+afterAll(async () => {
+  await consumer?.stop().catch(() => {});
+  await redisClient?.quit().catch(() => {});
+  await pgPool?.end().catch(() => {});
+  await redisContainer?.stop().catch(() => {});
+  await pgContainer?.stop().catch(() => {});
+}, 30_000);
+
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+// Integration tests
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+describe('pipeline integration — full round-trip', () => {
+  // Test 1: happy-path with bigint + Buffer attributes
+  it('publishes a Position with bigint and Buffer attributes and verifies the row in positions', async () => {
+    if (!dockerAvailable || !redisClient || !pgPool) {
+      console.warn('[pipeline.integration.test] skipping test 1: Docker not available');
+      return;
+    }
+
+    const position: Position = {
+      device_id: '356307042441013',
+      timestamp: new Date('2024-06-15T12:00:00.000Z'),
+      latitude: 54.687157,
+      longitude: 25.279652,
+      altitude: 130,
+      angle: 90,
+      speed: 45,
+      satellites: 12,
+      priority: 0,
+      attributes: {
+        num_attr: 255,
+        big_attr: BigInt('18446744073709551615'), // u64 max
+        buf_attr: Buffer.from([0xde, 0xad, 0xbe, 0xef]),
+      },
+    };
+
+    const fields = buildXaddFields(position, '8E');
+    await redisClient.xadd(STREAM, '*', ...fields);
+
+    // Poll until the row appears in positions (up to 10 s).
+    type Row = {
+      device_id: string;
+      ts: Date;
+      latitude: number;
+      longitude: number;
+      attributes: Record<string, unknown>;
+    };
+
+    const row = await pollUntil<Row>(async () => {
+      const result = await pgPool!.query<Row>(
+        'SELECT device_id, ts, latitude, longitude, attributes FROM positions WHERE device_id = $1 AND ts = $2',
+        [position.device_id, position.timestamp],
+      );
+      return result.rows[0] ?? null;
+    }, 10_000);
+
+    expect(row).not.toBeNull();
+    expect(row!.device_id).toBe(position.device_id);
+    expect(row!.latitude).toBeCloseTo(position.latitude, 4);
+    expect(row!.longitude).toBeCloseTo(position.longitude, 4);
+
+    // attributes JSONB: bigint stored as decimal string, Buffer as base64 string.
+    expect(typeof row!.attributes['big_attr']).toBe('string');
+    expect(row!.attributes['big_attr']).toBe('18446744073709551615');
+
+    expect(typeof row!.attributes['buf_attr']).toBe('string');
+    const decoded = Buffer.from(row!.attributes['buf_attr'] as string, 'base64');
+    expect(decoded).toEqual(Buffer.from([0xde, 0xad, 0xbe, 0xef]));
+
+    expect(row!.attributes['num_attr']).toBe(255);
+  }, 30_000);
+
+  // Test 2: idempotency — duplicate (device_id, ts) must not create a second row
+  it('does not create a duplicate row when the same (device_id, ts) is published twice', async () => {
+    if (!dockerAvailable || !redisClient || !pgPool) {
+      console.warn('[pipeline.integration.test] skipping test 2: Docker not available');
+      return;
+    }
+
+    const position: Position = {
+      device_id: 'DUP-DEVICE-001',
+      timestamp: new Date('2024-06-15T13:00:00.000Z'),
+      latitude: 1.0,
+      longitude: 2.0,
+      altitude: 10,
+      angle: 0,
+      speed: 0,
+      satellites: 4,
+      priority: 0,
+      attributes: {},
+    };
+
+    const fields = buildXaddFields(position, '8');
+
+    // Publish the same position twice.
+    await redisClient.xadd(STREAM, '*', ...fields);
+    await redisClient.xadd(STREAM, '*', ...fields);
+
+    // Wait long enough for both entries to be processed.
+    await new Promise<void>((resolve) => setTimeout(resolve, 3_000));
+
+    const result = await pgPool.query<{ count: string }>(
+      'SELECT COUNT(*) AS count FROM positions WHERE device_id = $1 AND ts = $2',
+      [position.device_id, position.timestamp],
+    );
+    const count = parseInt(result.rows[0]?.count ?? '0', 10);
+    expect(count).toBe(1);
+  }, 30_000);
+
+  // Test 3: malformed payload — decode error counter increments, entry not ACKed
+  it('increments decode error counter and leaves malformed entry pending (not ACKed)', async () => {
+    if (!dockerAvailable || !redisClient || !pgPool) {
+      console.warn('[pipeline.integration.test] skipping test 3: Docker not available');
+      return;
+    }
+
+    // Push a stream entry with a broken payload (not valid JSON).
+    const badEntryId = await redisClient.xadd(
+      STREAM,
+      '*',
+      'ts', new Date().toISOString(),
+      'device_id', 'BAD-DEVICE',
+      'codec', '8',
+      'payload', 'NOT_VALID_JSON {{{',
+    );
+
+    // Wait for the consumer to attempt processing.
+    await new Promise<void>((resolve) => setTimeout(resolve, 2_000));
+
+    // The entry should remain in the Pending Entry List (PEL) — it was not ACKed.
+    const pendingResult = await redisClient.xpending(
+      STREAM,
+      GROUP,
+      '-',
+      '+',
+      '100',
+    ) as Array<[string, string, number, number]>;
+
+    // Find the bad entry in the PEL.
+    const pendingIds = pendingResult.map(([id]) => id);
+    expect(pendingIds).toContain(badEntryId);
+  }, 30_000);
+
+  // Test 4: writer failure → retry — stop Postgres before publish, restart, verify row lands
+  it('retries and writes the row after Postgres recovers from a stopped state', async () => {
+    if (!dockerAvailable || !redisClient || !pgPool || !pgContainer) {
+      console.warn('[pipeline.integration.test] skipping test 4: Docker not available');
+      return;
+    }
+
+    const position: Position = {
+      device_id: 'RETRY-DEVICE-001',
+      timestamp: new Date('2024-06-15T14:00:00.000Z'),
+      latitude: 3.0,
+      longitude: 4.0,
+      altitude: 20,
+      angle: 45,
+      speed: 10,
+      satellites: 8,
+      priority: 1,
+      attributes: {},
+    };
+
+    // Stop Postgres before publishing so the first write attempt fails.
+    await pgContainer.stop();
+
+    const fields = buildXaddFields(position, '8');
+    await redisClient.xadd(STREAM, '*', ...fields);
+
+    // Wait briefly — the write should fail while Postgres is down.
+    await new Promise<void>((resolve) => setTimeout(resolve, 1_500));
+
+    // Restart Postgres.
+    pgContainer = await pgContainer.restart();
+
+    // Wait a bit to ensure the new container is accepting connections before
+    // reconnecting. The pool will get fresh connections once the TCP stack
+    // accepts again.
+    await new Promise<void>((resolve) => setTimeout(resolve, 3_000));
+
+    // The entry is still pending in the consumer's PEL; the next XREADGROUP
+    // poll will re-deliver it. The pipeline should eventually write it.
+    type Row = { device_id: string };
+    const row = await pollUntil<Row>(async () => {
+      try {
+        const result = await pgPool!.query<Row>(
+          'SELECT device_id FROM positions WHERE device_id = $1 AND ts = $2',
+          [position.device_id, position.timestamp],
+        );
+        return result.rows[0] ?? null;
+      } catch {
+        // Pool may throw transiently while connections re-establish.
+        return null;
+      }
+    }, 20_000);
+
+    expect(row).not.toBeNull();
+    expect(row!.device_id).toBe(position.device_id);
+  }, 60_000);
+});