How would you implement data lineage for microservices analytics?
Tests end-to-end provenance tracking, not just docs. Strong answers cover automated metadata capture at service boundaries, a central catalog such as DataHub or OpenLineage, and column-level tracing.
Tests whether you treat lineage as active provenance across distributed systems, not passive docs. A strong answer defines lineage as tracking origin, transformation, and movement; proposes automated metadata capture at service boundaries via schemas or API contracts; recommends a central graph store like DataHub or OpenLineage; and demands column-level tracing for root-cause analysis. Red flag: manual spreadsheets, log-only approaches, or ignoring upstream schema changes.
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