Scaling and Operations

1. What is the most important property for scaling an application according to the lesson?

Stateful application tier Stateless application tier In-memory caching Centralized session management

2. What is the purpose of the health check endpoint '/health/ready'?

To check if the database is operational To ensure the application can serve traffic To restart the application if it's down To verify the application's code quality

3. How should backups of the SQL Server database be managed according to the lesson?

Only perform backups weekly Take automated backups and verify by restoring Store backups in a single location Manual intervention is necessary for all backups

4. What is a key practice for application deployment mentioned in the lesson?

Manual SSH to deploy updates Single instance for all operations Containerization and push-to-deploy Disable health checks for better performance

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