Software Architecture · Design Patterns
How would you answer an interview scenario involving Command pattern?
For an interview scenario involving Command pattern, I would first clarify the business goal, scale, constraints, and the failure or quality attribute the interviewer wants to explore. Command packages an operation and its inputs as an object that can be executed, queued, logged, or retried. For production, use commands for meaningful application operations, validate at boundaries, make retry behavior explicit, and consider idempotency. I would then explain the main alternatives and tradeoffs, identify likely failure modes, and describe how I would validate the solution through testing, observability, security controls, and recovery or rollback planning.