A development team is building a new application that requires complex state management and high testability. They are considering using a functional programming language. However, the team has more experience with object-oriented programming. Which factor should most influence the decision?

The team's familiarity with object-oriented programming should take precedence to reduce development time.

Object-oriented programming is the only paradigm that supports complex state management.

Functional programming's pure functions make testing easier, which is critical for the application's testability requirement.

The choice of paradigm does not affect testability or state management.

An organization is transitioning from waterfall to agile and wants to adopt DevOps. The current release cycle is quarterly, and the team wants to move to weekly releases. The operations team is concerned about the increased frequency. Which approach best addresses operations' concerns while achieving the desired release frequency?

Implement feature flags to decouple deployment from release, allowing safer frequent deployments.

Keep the quarterly release cycle to avoid any risk.

Have developers manually deploy to production every week.

Automate all deployments without any rollback plan.

A startup is building a new SaaS product. They have a small team and need to launch quickly. They are considering between a monolithic architecture and a microservices architecture. The product is expected to grow rapidly, but the team is not yet familiar with distributed systems. Which architecture should they choose to balance speed of development with future scalability?

Build a monolithic application and never refactor it.

Use a serverless architecture for every function to avoid managing infrastructure.

Start with a modular monolith and plan to extract microservices as the team grows and the product matures.

Build a full microservices architecture from the start to avoid future refactoring.

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A development team is building a new application that requires complex state management and high testability. They are considering using a functional programming language. However, the team has more experience with object-oriented programming. Which factor should most influence the decision?
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An organization is transitioning from waterfall to agile and wants to adopt DevOps. The current release cycle is quarterly, and the team wants to move to weekly releases. The operations team is concerned about the increased frequency. Which approach best addresses operations' concerns while achieving the desired release frequency?
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A startup is building a new SaaS product. They have a small team and need to launch quickly. They are considering between a monolithic architecture and a microservices architecture. The product is expected to grow rapidly, but the team is not yet familiar with distributed systems. Which architecture should they choose to balance speed of development with future scalability?
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