Backend Engineer
Staff
system_design
What strategies would you employ to ensure high availability and disaster recovery in a microservices architecture? Please consider both database and service level perspectives.
I would implement replicas for all databases across multiple data centers to ensure redundancy and use automated health checks along with circuit breakers in the services to manage failovers while monitoring performance metrics.
Scenario Pressure: Discuss how you would enforce consistency and recoverability in case of a disk failure in one of the replicas.
Depth Trigger: Explain the trade-offs between synchronous versus asynchronous replication strategies.
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