intermediateDatabase456 of 469
What happens if the database goes down?
Tests whether you'd expect connection acquisition failures to surface as application errors immediately, and whether your design has a fallback (read replica failover, cached reads, graceful degradation) rather than every request hard-failing with no mitigation.
Ready to master this question?
Generate a complete walkthrough — background, the full answer in plain language, a working code example explained line by line, a real-world scenario, common mistakes, and how this same question gets asked in different ways.
Sign in to generate a response