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In your globally distributed auction application, users are able to place bids on various items. There are instances where multiple users place identical bids almost simultaneously, and these bids are processed by different application servers. Each event related to a bid includes data such as the item being bid on, the bid amount, the user who placed the bid, and the timestamp of when the bid was placed. You need to aggregate these bid events into a single repository in real time to accurately determine which user placed their bid first. What steps should you take to achieve this?