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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 the main difference between REST and gRPC?
3. What is the primary purpose of a CDN (Content Delivery Network)?
4. What is rate limiting primarily used to protect against?
5. A key advantage of microservices over a monolith is:
6. What is a database read replica typically used for?
7. What is the main purpose of TLS (Transport Layer Security)?
8. What does a "cache-aside" (lazy loading) caching strategy do?
9. What is a "single point of failure" (SPOF)?
10. What is sharding?
11. What does it mean for a service to be "stateless"?
12. What does it mean for an HTTP operation to be idempotent?

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