Rapid-Fire: 40 Questions with Crisp Answers

1. How to Drill

Cover the answer, say yours out loud, compare.

Each answer below is sized like a real interview exchange. That means two to four sentences: a definition, a trade-off, and an example. If your spoken answer ran much longer than that, the length is usually the problem. Every answer links to its full lesson when you want the depth.

The 40 questions sit in six groups. Pick one group at a time, or shuffle across all of them.

2. The Big Decision

1. What are microservices? Services that deploy independently