Practice Decoupling Microservices (3.2.6) - Cloud Applications: MapReduce, Spark, and Apache Kafka
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Decoupling Microservices

Practice - Decoupling Microservices

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Practice Questions

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Question 1 Easy

What does it mean to decouple microservices?

💡 Hint: Think about how changes to one service might affect another.

Question 2 Easy

How does Kafka help in decoupling services?

💡 Hint: Consider how messages are sent and received.

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Question 1

What is the role of Kafka in decoupling microservices?

a) Database connectivity
b) Messaging framework
c) API gateway

💡 Hint: Focus on how services exchange data.

Question 2

True or false: In decoupled systems, changes in one microservice can directly affect others.

True
False

💡 Hint: Consider the benefits of independence.

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Challenge Problems

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Challenge 1 Hard

Design a microservices architecture for an e-commerce application utilizing Kafka for decoupling. Explain your design choices.

💡 Hint: Think about how separate services could communicate through messages.

Challenge 2 Hard

Discuss the trade-offs of implementing decoupling with Kafka in a microservices architecture compared to tightly coupled systems.

💡 Hint: Consider benefits and downsides of flexibility versus simplicity.

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