Application Decoupling Patterns Quiz

What you'll be asked

1. Which messaging pattern is primarily used to decouple a producer from a consumer to ensure that a message is processed even if the consumer is temporarily unavailable?
2. When refactoring a monolithic application into microservices, why is the 'Strangler Fig' pattern often recommended?
3. What is the primary benefit of implementing the 'Circuit Breaker' pattern in a distributed system?
4. Which pattern is most effective when you need to notify multiple independent services about a state change in your application without the producer knowing who the consumers are?
5. In a complex microservices architecture, you need to maintain data consistency across services without using distributed transactions (2PC). Which pattern utilizes a sequence of local transactions coordinated by events or messages?

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