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The document outlines requirements for developing a web server with a RESTful API for translating text between languages. The API should allow defining the source and target languages. Translations should be cached in a database to avoid repeated hits to the external translation service. The server architecture should be extensible to allow changing the caching strategy or translation service. As a bonus, the server should implement smart precaching by requesting translations to related languages for the same text. The deliverables include a functional server, documentation on design decisions, setup instructions, test cases, quality code with comments, and an evaluation of results and ideas for improvement.

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Backend Assignment Updated

The document outlines requirements for developing a web server with a RESTful API for translating text between languages. The API should allow defining the source and target languages. Translations should be cached in a database to avoid repeated hits to the external translation service. The server architecture should be extensible to allow changing the caching strategy or translation service. As a bonus, the server should implement smart precaching by requesting translations to related languages for the same text. The deliverables include a functional server, documentation on design decisions, setup instructions, test cases, quality code with comments, and an evaluation of results and ideas for improvement.

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Back-end:

Translation Caching:

Language: NodeJS

Goal
Develop a web server that exposes an API to translate a text.

Task
Create a web server with a RESTful API to translate a text from one language to another.
For the actual translation, you can use an external service like Google Translate or Bing Translations.
The source and target language should be definable via the API.

In addition, we want to cache (store in Database) translations, in order to avoid repeated hits to the translation API. The
cache must be persistent!
The server should have an extensible architecture. E.g. We may want to change our caching strategy or switch out our
translation service.

Bonus Tasks
As a bonus task, implement smart pre-caching. This means we assume that if a user translates a text into Kannada, he is
likely to also translate the same text to Hindi. Therefore we want to not only request Kannada from the external service
but also other languages like Hindi, Tamil, etc. and store it in our cache.
The smart caching should not affect the response time of the translation API.

Deliverables
1. A functional web server
2. Explanation for the design decisions (in markdown format).
3. Explanation how to setup & run the server (in markdown format).
4. Test cases to test the APIs (using any well-known NodeJs testing frameworks).
5. Quality code with appropriate comments (Feel free to use NodeJs linter libraries)
6. Code should be stored in Github repository & shared.
7. Any secret keys used in the code, can be shared via email with proper instruction saying how & where to use the
secret keys.
8. Cache database schema
9. In addition, the text should contain how you evaluated your results and ideas for further improvement.

Note:
1. All explanation & documentation should be done in markdown format & should be shared using Github repository
2. Use of MySql or similar SQL database is a plus

We will evaluate your challenge on the quality of the code, documentation, test cases, linting and performance. Make
sure that it can be executed and installed easily!

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