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179 questions of the kind that actually get asked — in interviews, in architecture review boards, and by the person who has to run the thing at 3 AM. Every answer states the trade-off rather than the slogan, and says when the obvious choice is the wrong one.

All areas179 Architecture Fundamentals5 Distributed Systems26 Data Architecture23 Cloud Architecture19 Networking17 API & Integration Architecture13 Reliability & Resilience9 Observability8 Performance & Capacity Engineering6 Security Architecture16 Cost Architecture & FinOps4 Business Architecture2 Architecture Communication3 Enterprise Architecture2 Legacy Modernization3 AI-Era Architecture3 Software Architecture & Engineering3 Architecture Patterns6 Architecture Decision-Making9 The Architect's Meta-Skills2
Difficulty Any beginner intermediate advanced

123 questions.

  1. Webhooks advanced

    Design a webhook delivery system for a platform with 10,000 customers. What are the hard parts?

    2 min answer webhooksdeliverysecurityretries
  2. WebSockets & Realtime advanced

    A dashboard product uses WebSockets for live updates. It works at 5,000 concurrent users and falls apart at 50,000. Diagnose the architectural issues.

    2 min answer websocketsssebackplanefan-out
  3. Zero Trust advanced

    A board mandate says "implement zero trust in twelve months". What do you actually do, in what order?

    2 min answer zero-trustsequencingpragmatism