Diagnostic
Course: Comprehensive System Design Course
Consider a scenario where you are designing a payment processing module for an e-commerce system. Which principle of system design would be most directly applied by breaking it into independent, reusable components?
✅ Correct! The correct answer is:
Modularity.
Explanation:
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Modularity involves breaking the system into independent components for easier testing and updates, directly matching the scenario of separating payment processing. Scalability deals with handling load, performance with latency, and reliability with error-handling—none specifically address component independence as modularity does.