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    What Is Load Balancing?

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    What Is CAP Theorem?

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    Define Microservice Architecture

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    Why use WebSocket over Http?

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    What do you mean by lower latency interaction?

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    What Is Scalability?

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    Why Do You Need Clustering?

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    What Is A Cluster?

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    What is Domain Driven Design?

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    What defines a software architect?

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    What is meant by the KISS principle?

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    Why is it a good idea for “lower” application layers not to be aware of “higher” ones?

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    What does the expression “Fail Early” mean, and when would you want to do so?

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    What does “program to interfaces, not implementations” mean?

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    What is Elasticity (in contrast to Scalability)?

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    What is Back-Pressure?

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    WebSockets vs Rest API for real time data? Which to choose?

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    What is the difference between Monolithic, SOA and Microservices Architecture?

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    What Is Session Replication?

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    What Is Middle Tier Clustering?

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    How Do You Update A Live Heavy Traffic Site With Minimum Or Zero Down Time?

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    What Is ACID Property Of A System?

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    What Is Sticky Session Load Balancing? What Do You Mean By "Session Affinity"?

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    What Do You Mean By High Availability (HA)?

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    What does it mean "System Shall Be Resilient"?

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    What is a Model in DDD?

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    What is Domain in DDD?

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    Explain the Single Responsibility Principle (SRP)?

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    What is difference between fault tolerance and fault resilience?

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    What is the difference between Concurrency and Parallelism?

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    What is the difference between DTOs and ViewModels in DDD?

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    What Is Load Balancing Fail Over?

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    What are the DRY and DIE principles?

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    What does SOLID stand for? What are its principles?

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    Is it better to return NULL or empty values from functions/methods where the return value is not present?

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    "People who like this also like... ". How would you implement this feature in an e-commerce shop?

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    How can you keep one copy of your utility code and let multiple consumer components use and deploy it?

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    Name some Performance Testing best practices

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    Name some Performance Testing metrics to measure

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    Two customers add a product to the basket in the same time whose the stock was only one (1). What will you do?

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    Explain Failure in Contrast to Error

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    Provide Definition Of Location Transparency

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    What Is Sharding?

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    Why layering your application is important? Provide some bad layering example.

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    What's the difference between principles YAGNI and KISS?

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    What is GOD class and why should we avoid it?

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    Why should you structure your solution by components?

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    What Is BASE Property Of A System?

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    Explain threads to your grandparents

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    How to handle exceptions in a layered application?

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    Why should I isolate my domain entities from my presentation layer?

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    What Is IP Address Affinity Technique For Load Balancing?

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    What is actor model in context of a programming language?

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    Defend the monolithic architecture.

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    What is Unit test, Integration Test, Smoke test, Regression Test and what are the differences between them?

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    How do you off load work from the Database?

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    Explain what is Cache Stampede

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    Compare "Fail Fast" vs "Robust" approaches of building software

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    What does Amdahl's Law mean?

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    What is the most accepted transaction strategy for microservices?

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    What is the difference between Cohesion and Coupling?

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    Why is writing software difficult? What makes maintaining software hard?

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    Are you familiar with The Twelve-Factor App principles?

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    What are heuristic exceptions?

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    What Does Eventually Consistent Mean?

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    What Is Shared Nothing Architecture? How Does It Scale?

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    How do I test a private function or a class that has private methods, fields or inner classes?

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    What are best practices for caching paginated results whose ordering/properties can change?

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    Cache miss-storm: Dealing with concurrency when caching invalidates for high-traffic sites

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    Could you provide an example of the Single Responsibility Principle?

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23 Databases interview questions and answers for software engineers

A database is an organized collection of data, generally stored and accessed electronically from a computer system. Where databases are more complex they are often developed using formal design and modeling techniques. Here is a list of coding interview questions on Databases to help you g...

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21 Concurrency interview questions and answers for software engineers

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