Cognizant
American multinational information technology services and consulting company.
4 Rounds
~21 Days
Medium
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Interview Question Bank
Backend Engineer
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System Design
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hard
Explain the Saga design pattern. How would you implement it for distributed transactions across microservices?
#Distributed Systems
#Transactions
#Event Driven
Backend Engineer
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System Design
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medium
How do you implement distributed tracing in a microservices architecture?
#Observability
#Spring Cloud Sleuth
#Zipkin
Backend Engineer
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Technical
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medium
Explain the role of an API Gateway in a microservices ecosystem. What cross-cutting concerns does it handle?
#Architecture
#Routing
#Security
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