Leadership must be convinced to re-architect a monolithic 3-tier file-sharing app into microservices using fully managed services. Which advantages should you highlight?
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Correct answer: Decouple infrastructure from application code, accelerate development and releases, simplify infra management, enable CI/CD and A/B testing, and scale as needed..
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The correct answer highlights the key benefits of re-architecting a monolithic application into microservices using fully managed services. Decoupling infrastructure from application code allows developers to focus on business logic. Accelerating development and releases is a direct result of smaller, independent services. Simplified infrastructure management comes from using fully managed services, reducing operational overhead. Enabling CI/CD and A/B testing is significantly easier with microservices, as changes can be deployed and tested independently. Finally, the ability to scale individual services as needed provides greater flexibility and cost efficiency compared to scaling an entire monolith. "Significantly lower cost, easier infrastructure management, and automatic CI/CD pipeline management" is partially correct but less comprehensive. While cost can be lower and management easier, it's not always "significantly" lower, and automatic CI/CD is an enablement, not a direct outcome. "Containerize the monolith with Docker and deploy the resulting container to Kubernetes" describes a lift-and-shift containerization strategy, not a re-architecture to microservices. "Automate the migration process with Migrate for Compute Engine" describes a migration tool, not the advantages of the target architecture.
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