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- Lucian Oprea
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Basics of Microservices
⏷ 1. What are the key principles of designing microservices?
⏷ 2. What are the advantages and disadvantages of microservices?
⏷ 3. How do you determine the granularity of a microservice?
⏷ 4. What are the challenges of splitting a monolithic application into microservices?
⏷ 5. What is the role of domain-driven design (DDD) in microservices?
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⏷ 6. Can you describe a situation where using microservices is not appropriate?
Communication Between Microservices
⏷ 7. What are synchronous vs. asynchronous communication methods in microservices?
⏷ 8. What is an API Gateway, and why is it used in microservices?
⏷ 9. How does service discovery work?
⏷ 10. How do you handle communication failures between microservices?
⏷ 11. What are the trade-offs between using REST and gRPC for inter-service communication?
⏷ 12. How do you achieve eventual consistency in an asynchronous communication model?
⏷ 13. Can microservices communicate without an API Gateway? How?
⏷ 14. How is data stored in a microservices architecture?
Data Management in Microservices
⏷ 15. How do you handle data consistency in a distributed microservices system?
⏷ 16. How do you manage transactions across multiple microservices?
⏷ 17. Can you explain how to implement a Saga pattern for distributed transactions?
⏷ 18. How do you design a schema for services that need to query across multiple datasets?
⏷ 19. What is the role of CQRS and Event Sourcing in microservices?
Security in Microservices
⏷ 20. How do you secure communication between microservices?
⏷ 21. What is OAuth2, and how is it used in microservices?
⏷ 22. What are the common security challenges in a microservices architecture?
⏷ 23. How does a distributed system handle authentication and authorization?
⏷ 24. What are the differences between token-based and session-based authentication in microservices?
⏷ 25. How do you implement role-based access control (RBAC) in a distributed microservices architecture?
⏷ 26. How does an API Gateway help in managing security for microservices?
Deployment and Scaling
⏷ 27. What deployment strategies are commonly used for microservices?
⏷ 28. How do you scale microservices?
⏷ 29. What is containerization, and how does it benefit microservices?
⏷ 30. What is a service mesh, and how does it help in managing microservices deployments?
⏷ 31. How would you handle a scenario where scaling one microservice increases load on another?
Resilience and Fault Tolerance
⏷ 32. What is the Circuit Breaker pattern, and why is it important?
⏷ 33. How do you implement retries in microservices?
⏷ 34. What is bulkhead isolation, and how is it implemented?
⏷ 35. Can you explain the role of timeouts in building a resilient microservices architecture?
Monitoring and Observability
⏷ 36. How do you monitor microservices?
⏷ 37. What tools are commonly used for logging in microservices?
⏷ 38. What is distributed tracing, and why is it important?
⏷ 39. How do you handle logging across multiple services?
⏷ 40. How do you monitor the health of a microservices system in real time?
⏷ 41. How would you design a system to capture metrics, logs, and traces for observability?
Testing Microservices
⏷ 42. What are the challenges in testing microservices?
⏷ 43. What is contract testing, and how does it help in microservices?
⏷ 44. What tools are used for automated testing in microservices?
⏷ 45. How do you design unit tests for microservices with external dependencies?
⏷ 46. How do you implement end-to-end testing in a microservices architecture?
⏷ 47. What are the limitations of mocking in microservices testing?
Tools and Frameworks
⏷ 48. What is the role of Kafka in a microservices architecture?
⏷ 49. How is Docker used in microservices?
⏷ 50. What is Istio, and how does it help with microservices?
⏷ 51. How do you choose between Kafka and RabbitMQ for messaging in microservices?
Real-Life Scenarios
⏷ 52. How do you migrate a monolithic application to microservices?
⏷ 53. How do you debug performance issues in microservices?
⏷ 54. What are the common challenges faced in microservices production systems?