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How would you design a high-availability Spring Boot microservice? What are the key concerns?

Stateless design, externalized config, liveness/readiness health probes, circuit breakers, distributed tracing, structured JSON logging, horizontal autoscaling, graceful shutdown, tuned connection pooling, and idempotent APIs — each addresses a specific way a single-instance, tightly-coupled service fails under real production load.

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