Words you know: complete the sentences

servant leadership · service boundary · prioritize ruthlessly · tightly coupled · talk past each other

• Because these two microservices are too ____ , a failure in one immediately crashes the other.
• We need to clearly define the ____ of our inventory service to avoid database overlaps.
• During the meeting, the project managers started to ____ because they used different terminology.
• Our team lead demonstrates ____ by supporting our growth and removing blockers.
• With limited time before the launch in San Francisco, we must ____ our remaining tasks.

Remember: Contrast and concession (although, even though, whereas, while, despite, in spite of, nevertheless, much as)

• [Although / Despite / Nevertheless] we had a tight deadline, we managed to write a complete design doc.
• The backend is written in Go, [whereas / despite / nevertheless] the frontend is built entirely with React.
• [In spite of / Even though / While] the team's best efforts, the production release in London was delayed.
• We faced several database issues; [nevertheless / although / whereas] we completed the migration on time.

Remember: Unreal past (it's time, would rather, as if / as though, suppose)

• It's high time we [deprecated / deprecate / will deprecate] the old notification service in Chicago.
• I would rather we [fleshed out / flesh out / have fleshed out] the database schema before writing any code.
• He talks about the architecture as if he [were / is / has been] a principal engineer.
• Suppose we [scoped down / scope down / will scope down] the scope of the release, would we meet the deadline?

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