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What does ACID stand for in the context of database transactions?

1. What does ACID stand for in the context of database transactions?
2. What is a "single point of failure" (SPOF)?
3. What does the CAP theorem state about distributed systems?
4. What is the main difference between REST and gRPC?
5. What is database replication primarily used for?
6. Synchronous vs asynchronous communication between services — what is the core tradeoff?
7. What is a database index?
8. A key advantage of microservices over a monolith is:
9. What is the difference between latency and throughput?
10. What does DNS resolution do?
11. What is capacity planning?
12. What is a database read replica typically used for?

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