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7 questions on Distributed Systems for backend developers, easiest first.

Medium 1

Retrying after a shared outagemedium

Hard 6

CAP during a network partitionhard
Why a lock alone is not enoughhard
Account events processed out of orderhard
Retries stacked at every layerhard
Adding a fifth cache nodehard
Work continues after the client gives uphard

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