APIs & distributed systems · topic 3 of 4

Microservices

Service design, communication, resilience, sagas, events, observability.

Questions below are grouped from foundations to advanced. Work top to bottom if the topic is new to you, or jump to a level if you are brushing up.

Questions
20
Difficulty mix
4 easy · 10 medium · 6 hard

Topics covered

  • Sagas & Events5
  • Service Design4
  • Data Consistency4
  • Communication3
  • Resilience2
  • Observability2

Foundations

Easy · 4 questions

Definitions and building blocks — start here if the topic is new to you.

Core concepts

Medium · 10 questions

The questions most interviews spend their time on: how it works and when to use it.

Advanced

Hard · 6 questions

Internals, trade-offs and edge cases — useful for senior rounds and follow-ups.

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