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To track the entire lifecycle of each request across different microservices, the DevOps team should consider adopting tracing. Distributed tracing allows teams to follow a request as it travels through the various microservices, providing visibility into how long each part of the request lifecycle takes and where any bottlenecks or failures occur. Tools like Zipkin, Jaeger, and AWS X-Ray are commonly used for this purpose. Tracing complements metrics and logging by providing detailed insights into the interactions and dependencies between services.

Explanation

Mule 4 is built to:

•Minimize the need for custom code.

•Avoid the need for you to know or understand Java.

However, some advanced uses cases require integration with custom Java code, such as:

•Reuse of a library, such as a tax calculation library.

•Reuse of a canonical object model that is standard in the organization.

•Execution of custom logic using Java.

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Explanation

Connected Apps

The Connected Apps feature provides a framework that enables an external application to integrate with Anypoint Platform using APIs through OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect. Connected apps help users delegate their access without sharing sensitive credentials or giving full control of their accounts to third parties. Actions taken by connected apps are audited, and users can also revoke access at any time. Note that some products do not currently include client IDs in this release of the Connected Apps feature. The Connected Apps feature enables you to use secure authentication protocols and control an app’s access to user data. Additionally, end users can authorize the app to access their Anypoint Platform data.

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Explanation

Correct answer is Use a Batch job scope to bulk insert records into the database

* Batch Job is most efficient way to manage millions of records.

A few points to note here are as follows :

Reliability: If you want reliabilty while processing the records, i.e should the processing survive a runtime crash or other unhappy scenarios, and when restarted process all the remaining records, if yes then go for batch as it uses persistent queues.

Error Handling: In Parallel for each an error in a particular route will stop processing the remaining records in that route and in such case you'd need to handle it using on error continue, batch process does not stop during such error instead you can have a step for failures and have a dedicated handling in it.

Memory footprint: Since question said that there are millions of records to process, parallel for each will aggregate all the processed records at the end and can possibly cause Out Of Memory.

Batch job instead provides a BatchResult in the on complete phase where you can get the count of failures and success. For huge file processing if order is not a concern definitely go ahead with Batch Job