QUESTION 29 OF 30

What are some of the issues related to a sticky session?

This can either be a standalone or a follow-up question. Interviewers ask follow-up questions to explore a topic in more detail or collect more information. Follow-up questions can be asked immediately after a question they relate to or at any point later in the interview. If asked later in the interview, it either indicates that the topic is important to the interviewer, or they are trying to correlate your answers and making sure you are consistent throughout the interview. Keeping your answers brief and to the point will help you achieve consistency.

Follow-up questions should be responded to the same way the initial question was. If it's a technical or operational question, keep your answer brief and to the point. If it is a behavioral or situational question, you can use the STAR methodology to formulate your answer.

"The primary issue you may face you may encounter when employing the sticky session methodology is that the browser the client is using may not support cookies or they have disabled them. In this case, the load balancer will not be able to identify the session a request belongs to. This will cause strange behavior for the user. Another issue is that if the server with the user information fails, it will be lost, and there will be no way to recover the user session."

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