--- title: I ACED my Technical Interview Series | Part 1... description: A walkthrough of core microservices design patterns using an e-commerce platform as a running example. Covers the motivation for splitting a monolith,... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/i-aced-my-technical-interview-series-part-1-microservices-design-patterns-wa6so8lhm twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: I ACED my Technical Interview Series | Part 1 Microservices Design Patterns | daily.dev og:description: A walkthrough of core microservices design patterns using an e-commerce platform as a running example. Covers the motivation for splitting a monolith,... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/i-aced-my-technical-interview-series-part-1-microservices-design-patterns-wa6so8lhm og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/wa6so8lHM.png og:image:alt: I ACED my Technical Interview Series | Part 1 Microservices Design Patterns og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # I ACED my Technical Interview Series | Part 1 Microservices Design Patterns **[Kiki's Bytes ](https://daily.dev/sources/kikisbytes)** · 12 min read · 2 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A walkthrough of core microservices design patterns using an e-commerce platform as a running example. Covers the motivation for splitting a monolith, database-per-service pattern, service discovery (client-side vs server-side), load balancing algorithms, synchronous vs asynchronous communication (REST vs message brokers like Kafka), resilience patterns (circuit breaker, exponential backoff with jitter, idempotency keys), and observability through centralized logging with trace IDs and distributed tracing tools like Jaeger. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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