System Design & Architecture Standards

Design scalable microservices by applying Separation of Concerns, Single Source of Truth, Fail Fast, and Graceful Degradation principles to ensure robustness and maintainability.

Handle fault tolerance in distributed systems by implementing patterns like Circuit Breakers, Idempotency, and Eventual Consistency to manage failures and ensure reliable operations.

The CAP theorem dictates that distributed systems can only guarantee two out of three properties: Consistency, Availability, and Partition tolerance, forcing trade-offs during system design.

Use event-driven architecture for asynchronous, decoupled communication and high scalability, whereas layered architecture suits structured, maintainable applications with strict separation of concerns.

Achieve high cohesion and loose coupling by utilizing interfaces and Dependency Injection (DI), which separates module construction from its usage and reduces direct dependencies.

Yes, you can apply these system design standards to a monolithic application by enforcing modularity, statelessness, and Clean Architecture principles to improve structure and prepare for future scaling.