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-# Backend/API Service Architecture Questions
-
-## Service Type & Architecture
-
-1. **Service architecture:**
-   - Monolithic API (single service)
-   - Microservices (multiple independent services)
-   - Modular monolith (single deployment, modular code)
-   - Serverless (AWS Lambda, Cloud Functions, etc.)
-   - Hybrid
-
-2. **API paradigm:**
-   - REST
-   - GraphQL
-   - gRPC
-   - WebSocket (real-time)
-   - Server-Sent Events (SSE)
-   - Message-based (event-driven)
-   - Multiple paradigms
-
-3. **Communication patterns:**
-   - Synchronous (request-response)
-   - Asynchronous (message queues)
-   - Event-driven (pub/sub)
-   - Webhooks
-   - Multiple patterns
-
-## Framework & Language
-
-4. **Backend language/framework:**
-   - Node.js (Express, Fastify, NestJS, Hono)
-   - Python (FastAPI, Django, Flask)
-   - Go (Gin, Echo, Chi, standard lib)
-   - Java/Kotlin (Spring Boot, Micronaut, Quarkus)
-   - C# (.NET Core, ASP.NET)
-   - Ruby (Rails, Sinatra)
-   - Rust (Axum, Actix, Rocket)
-   - PHP (Laravel, Symfony)
-   - Elixir (Phoenix)
-   - Other: **\_\_\_**
-
-5. **GraphQL implementation (if applicable):**
-   - Apollo Server
-   - GraphQL Yoga
-   - Hasura (auto-generated)
-   - Postgraphile
-   - Custom
-   - Not using GraphQL
-
-6. **gRPC implementation (if applicable):**
-   - Protocol Buffers
-   - Language-specific gRPC libraries
-   - Not using gRPC
-
-## Database & Data Layer
-
-7. **Primary database:**
-   - PostgreSQL
-   - MySQL/MariaDB
-   - MongoDB
-   - DynamoDB (AWS)
-   - Firestore (Google)
-   - CockroachDB
-   - Cassandra
-   - Redis (as primary)
-   - Multiple databases (polyglot persistence)
-   - Other: **\_\_\_**
-
-8. **Database access pattern:**
-   - ORM (Prisma, TypeORM, SQLAlchemy, Hibernate, etc.)
-   - Query builder (Knex, Kysely, jOOQ)
-   - Raw SQL
-   - Database SDK (Supabase, Firebase)
-   - Mix
-
-9. **Caching layer:**
-   - Redis
-   - Memcached
-   - In-memory (application cache)
-   - CDN caching (for static responses)
-   - Database query cache
-   - None needed
-
-10. **Read replicas:**
-    - Yes (separate read/write databases)
-    - No (single database)
-    - Planned for future
-
-11. **Database sharding:**
-    - Yes (horizontal partitioning)
-    - No (single database)
-    - Planned for scale
-
-## Authentication & Authorization
-
-12. **Authentication method:**
-    - JWT (stateless)
-    - Session-based (stateful)
-    - OAuth2 provider (Auth0, Okta, Keycloak)
-    - API keys
-    - Mutual TLS (mTLS)
-    - Multiple methods
-
-13. **Authorization pattern:**
-    - Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)
-    - Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)
-    - Access Control Lists (ACL)
-    - Custom logic
-    - None (open API)
-
-14. **Identity provider:**
-    - Self-managed (own user database)
-    - Auth0
-    - AWS Cognito
-    - Firebase Auth
-    - Keycloak
-    - Azure AD / Entra ID
-    - Okta
-    - Other: **\_\_\_**
-
-## Message Queue & Event Streaming
-
-15. **Message queue (if needed):**
-    - RabbitMQ
-    - Apache Kafka
-    - AWS SQS
-    - Google Pub/Sub
-    - Redis (pub/sub)
-    - NATS
-    - None needed
-    - Other: **\_\_\_**
-
-16. **Event streaming (if needed):**
-    - Apache Kafka
-    - AWS Kinesis
-    - Azure Event Hubs
-    - Redis Streams
-    - None needed
-
-17. **Background jobs:**
-    - Queue-based (Bull, Celery, Sidekiq)
-    - Cron-based (node-cron, APScheduler)
-    - Serverless functions (scheduled Lambda)
-    - None needed
-
-## Service Communication (Microservices)
-
-18. **Service mesh (if microservices):**
-    - Istio
-    - Linkerd
-    - Consul
-    - None (direct communication)
-    - Not applicable
-
-19. **Service discovery:**
-    - Kubernetes DNS
-    - Consul
-    - etcd
-    - AWS Cloud Map
-    - Hardcoded (for now)
-    - Not applicable
-
-20. **Inter-service communication:**
-    - HTTP/REST
-    - gRPC
-    - Message queue
-    - Event bus
-    - Not applicable
-
-## API Design & Documentation
-
-21. **API versioning:**
-    - URL versioning (/v1/, /v2/)
-    - Header versioning (Accept-Version)
-    - No versioning (single version)
-    - Semantic versioning
-
-22. **API documentation:**
-    - OpenAPI/Swagger
-    - GraphQL introspection/playground
-    - Postman collections
-    - Custom docs
-    - README only
-
-23. **API testing tools:**
-    - Postman
-    - Insomnia
-    - REST Client (VS Code)
-    - cURL examples
-    - Multiple tools
-
-## Rate Limiting & Throttling
-
-24. **Rate limiting:**
-    - Per-user/API key
-    - Per-IP
-    - Global rate limit
-    - Tiered (different limits per plan)
-    - None (internal API)
-
-25. **Rate limit implementation:**
-    - Application-level (middleware)
-    - API Gateway
-    - Redis-based
-    - None
-
-## Data Validation & Processing
-
-26. **Request validation:**
-    - Schema validation (Zod, Joi, Yup, Pydantic)
-    - Manual validation
-    - Framework built-in
-    - None
-
-27. **Data serialization:**
-    - JSON
-    - Protocol Buffers
-    - MessagePack
-    - XML
-    - Multiple formats
-
-28. **File uploads (if applicable):**
-    - Direct to server (local storage)
-    - S3/Cloud storage
-    - Presigned URLs (client direct upload)
-    - None needed
-
-## Error Handling & Resilience
-
-29. **Error handling strategy:**
-    - Standard HTTP status codes
-    - Custom error codes
-    - RFC 7807 (Problem Details)
-    - GraphQL errors
-    - Mix
-
-30. **Circuit breaker (for external services):**
-    - Yes (Hystrix, Resilience4j, Polly)
-    - No (direct calls)
-    - Not needed
-
-31. **Retry logic:**
-    - Exponential backoff
-    - Fixed retries
-    - No retries
-    - Library-based (axios-retry, etc.)
-
-32. **Graceful shutdown:**
-    - Yes (drain connections, finish requests)
-    - No (immediate shutdown)
-
-## Observability
-
-33. **Logging:**
-    - Structured logging (JSON)
-    - Plain text logs
-    - Library: (Winston, Pino, Logrus, Zap, etc.)
-
-34. **Log aggregation:**
-    - ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana)
-    - Datadog
-    - Splunk
-    - CloudWatch Logs
-    - Loki + Grafana
-    - None (local logs)
-
-35. **Metrics & Monitoring:**
-    - Prometheus
-    - Datadog
-    - New Relic
-    - Application Insights
-    - CloudWatch
-    - Grafana
-    - None
-
-36. **Distributed tracing:**
-    - OpenTelemetry
-    - Jaeger
-    - Zipkin
-    - Datadog APM
-    - AWS X-Ray
-    - None
-
-37. **Health checks:**
-    - Liveness probe (is service up?)
-    - Readiness probe (can accept traffic?)
-    - Startup probe
-    - Dependency checks (database, cache, etc.)
-    - None
-
-38. **Alerting:**
-    - PagerDuty
-    - Opsgenie
-    - Slack/Discord webhooks
-    - Email
-    - Custom
-    - None
-
-## Security
-
-39. **HTTPS/TLS:**
-    - Required (HTTPS only)
-    - Optional (support both)
-    - Terminated at load balancer
-
-40. **CORS configuration:**
-    - Specific origins (whitelist)
-    - All origins (open)
-    - None needed (same-origin clients)
-
-41. **Security headers:**
-    - Helmet.js or equivalent
-    - Custom headers
-    - None (basic)
-
-42. **Input sanitization:**
-    - SQL injection prevention (parameterized queries)
-    - XSS prevention
-    - CSRF protection
-    - All of the above
-
-43. **Secrets management:**
-    - Environment variables
-    - AWS Secrets Manager
-    - HashiCorp Vault
-    - Azure Key Vault
-    - Kubernetes Secrets
-    - Doppler
-    - Other: **\_\_\_**
-
-44. **Compliance requirements:**
-    - GDPR
-    - HIPAA
-    - SOC 2
-    - PCI DSS
-    - None
-
-## Deployment & Infrastructure
-
-45. **Deployment platform:**
-    - AWS (ECS, EKS, Lambda, Elastic Beanstalk)
-    - Google Cloud (GKE, Cloud Run, App Engine)
-    - Azure (AKS, App Service, Container Instances)
-    - Kubernetes (self-hosted)
-    - Docker Swarm
-    - Heroku
-    - Railway
-    - Fly.io
-    - Vercel/Netlify (serverless)
-    - VPS (DigitalOcean, Linode)
-    - On-premise
-    - Other: **\_\_\_**
-
-46. **Containerization:**
-    - Docker
-    - Podman
-    - Not containerized (direct deployment)
-
-47. **Orchestration:**
-    - Kubernetes
-    - Docker Compose (dev/small scale)
-    - AWS ECS
-    - Nomad
-    - None (single server)
-
-48. **Infrastructure as Code:**
-    - Terraform
-    - CloudFormation
-    - Pulumi
-    - Bicep (Azure)
-    - CDK (AWS)
-    - Ansible
-    - Manual setup
-
-49. **Load balancing:**
-    - Application Load Balancer (AWS ALB, Azure App Gateway)
-    - Nginx
-    - HAProxy
-    - Kubernetes Ingress
-    - Traefik
-    - Platform-managed
-    - None (single instance)
-
-50. **Auto-scaling:**
-    - Horizontal (add more instances)
-    - Vertical (increase instance size)
-    - Serverless (automatic)
-    - None (fixed capacity)
-
-## CI/CD
-
-51. **CI/CD platform:**
-    - GitHub Actions
-    - GitLab CI
-    - CircleCI
-    - Jenkins
-    - AWS CodePipeline
-    - Azure DevOps
-    - Google Cloud Build
-    - Other: **\_\_\_**
-
-52. **Deployment strategy:**
-    - Rolling deployment
-    - Blue-green deployment
-    - Canary deployment
-    - Recreate (downtime)
-    - Serverless (automatic)
-
-53. **Testing in CI/CD:**
-    - Unit tests
-    - Integration tests
-    - E2E tests
-    - Load tests
-    - Security scans
-    - All of the above
-
-## Performance
-
-54. **Performance requirements:**
-    - High throughput (1000+ req/s)
-    - Moderate (100-1000 req/s)
-    - Low (< 100 req/s)
-
-55. **Latency requirements:**
-    - Ultra-low (< 10ms)
-    - Low (< 100ms)
-    - Moderate (< 500ms)
-    - No specific requirement
-
-56. **Connection pooling:**
-    - Database connection pool
-    - HTTP connection pool (for external APIs)
-    - None needed
-
-57. **CDN (for static assets):**
-    - CloudFront
-    - Cloudflare
-    - Fastly
-    - None (dynamic only)
-
-## Data & Storage
-
-58. **File storage (if needed):**
-    - AWS S3
-    - Google Cloud Storage
-    - Azure Blob Storage
-    - MinIO (self-hosted)
-    - Local filesystem
-    - None needed
-
-59. **Search functionality:**
-    - Elasticsearch
-    - Algolia
-    - Meilisearch
-    - Typesense
-    - Database full-text search
-    - None needed
-
-60. **Data backup:**
-    - Automated database backups
-    - Point-in-time recovery
-    - Manual backups
-    - Cloud-provider managed
-    - None (dev/test only)
-
-## Additional Features
-
-61. **Webhooks (outgoing):**
-    - Yes (notify external systems)
-    - No
-
-62. **Scheduled tasks/Cron jobs:**
-    - Yes (cleanup, reports, etc.)
-    - No
-
-63. **Multi-tenancy:**
-    - Single tenant
-    - Multi-tenant (shared database)
-    - Multi-tenant (separate databases)
-    - Not applicable
-
-64. **Internationalization (i18n):**
-    - Multiple languages/locales
-    - English only
-    - Not applicable
-
-65. **Audit logging:**
-    - Track all changes (who, what, when)
-    - Critical operations only
-    - None