Explain reliability and runtime fundamentals
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This question evaluates understanding of reliability and runtime fundamentals in backend engineering, covering competencies such as fault tolerance, end-to-end request lifecycles, API gateway degradation, storage engine selection for search, and the distinction between compilers and interpreters.
You may be asked several short technical-fundamentals questions such as:
- In a Kafka-based batch consumer, how would you prevent a batch from being processed twice?
- What happens end-to-end when a user opens a browser, types a query into Google, and presses Search?
- If a large web service's API gateway goes down, how should the system degrade gracefully or recover?
- What kind of database or storage engine would you choose for search results or searchable documents, and why?
- What is the difference between a compiler and an interpreter?
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