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Event-Driven Integration
Systems integrating by publishing and consuming events rather than by calling each other's APIs.
OpenAPI
A machine-readable specification format for HTTP APIs, from which documentation, clients, servers, mocks and validation can be generated.
REST
An architectural style for APIs built on resources identified by URLs, manipulated with uniform HTTP methods, and stateless requests.
You are designing APIs for a platform with a web app, a mobile app, internal service-to-service traffic and third-party partners. What do you expose, and where?
What the interviewer is testing Whether you choose per constraint or adopt one technology as an identity. The wrong answers here are all defensible sounding and
Your search index and your database disagree — some products appear in search that were deleted, and some new ones never appear. How do you make this reliable?
Why it drifts Almost always a dual write : the application writes to the database and then to the search index as two independent operations. One can succeed an
APIs as Products
Ownership, lifecycle, deprecation policy and developer experience.
gRPC APIs
Contract-first RPC, generated clients and protobuf compatibility rules.
Product Thinking
Treating platforms and services as products with users and a lifecycle.
Time to Market
The constraint that dominates most products, and how to trade against it.