Distributed Financial Systems (Microservices Architecture)
1. Distributed Systems Fundamentals
Real production experience
Awareness of network unreliability
Mention of timeouts, retries, circuit breakers
Ability to explain trade-offs clearly

2. Microservices Architecture Design
Understanding of bounded contexts (DDD)
Awareness of team ownership
Knowledge of operational complexity

3. Event Driven Architecture (RabbitMQ / MassTransit)
Duplicate message handling
Idempotency
Retry policies
Poison message handling

4. Distributed Transactions & Data Consistency
Understanding of eventual consistency
Discussion of compensating transactions
Awareness of idempotency keys

5. Resiliency & Fault Tolerance
Failure isolation
Retry storm awareness
Timeout strategies

6. Performance & Scalability
Understanding of throughput
Discussion about caching strategies
Awareness of data locality

7. Observability & Monitoring
OpenTelemetry
Trace propagation
Production debugging

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