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2627 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 areas2627 Architecture Fundamentals81 Distributed Systems101 Data Architecture90 Cloud Architecture77 Networking86 API & Integration Architecture78 Reliability & Resilience88 Observability81 Performance & Capacity Engineering90 Security Architecture85 Cost Architecture & FinOps82 Business Architecture93 Architecture Communication91 Enterprise Architecture91 Legacy Modernization82 AI-Era Architecture86 Software Architecture & Engineering84 Architecture Patterns84 Architecture Decision-Making91 The Architect's Meta-Skills92 Delivery & Release Engineering93 Platform Engineering & Developer Experience92 Testing & Quality Architecture90 Data Platform Architecture88 Streaming & Real-Time Data93 Data Governance & Semantics81 Frontend & Experience Architecture91 Edge, Mobile & IoT88 Regulatory & Data Protection Architecture90 Assurance, Audit & Model Risk88
Difficulty Any beginner intermediate advanced

1529 questions.

  1. Agent Architectures advanced

    Review this design. A finance team's invoice processor uses a planner agent that decomposes each invoice into subtasks, a critic agent that reviews the plan, a vector store of the last 50000 processed invoices as episodic memory, a 40-step tool loop, and a human queue for anything the critic flags. The task is to extract six fields and post them to the ledger. What would you remove and what would you keep?

    3 min answer agentsover-engineeringstructured-outputdeterminism
  2. AI Cost Management advanced

    A travel platform's AI feature costs vary enormously between interactions and the total is growing faster than usage. Which levers apply, in what order?

    2 min answer ai-costcachingroutingcontext
  3. AI Cost Management advanced

    An AI feature launched two months ago now costs more per month than the rest of the platform. What do you investigate?

    2 min answer aicostfinopsarchitecture
  4. AI Cost Management advanced

    An AI feature was modelled at £0.02 per interaction. Production shows £0.11. Where did the difference come from?

    2 min answer finopsllmunit-economics
  5. AI Cost Management advanced

    An inference platform receives a burst of expensive long-context requests that would starve short interactive ones. Design admission control, priority classes, token-based limits and batching so interactive latency SLOs hold.

    3 min answer inferenceadmission-controlprioritybatching
  6. AI-Era Architecture advanced

    An AI platform serves computationally expensive requests with unpredictable bursts, where one request can occupy an accelerator for seconds. What is the architectural shape, and which control is most often misplaced?

    2 min answer inferenceadmission-controlbatchingcapacity
  7. AI-Era Architecture advanced

    An LLM feature that worked last week now gives worse answers. Nothing was deployed. How do you find out what changed, and what should have been in place?

    2 min answer prompt-managementevaluationversioningllm
  8. AI-Era Architecture advanced

    An enterprise AI platform serves many customers on shared inference infrastructure. What isolation is required, and where is the hardest boundary?

    2 min answer coheremulti-tenancyisolationdata
  9. AI-Era Architecture advanced

    An inference platform receives computationally expensive requests in unpredictable bursts. Should it use admission control, request queues, dynamic batching, autoscaling, priority classes or pre-provisioned capacity?

    2 min answer together-aiinferencebatchingadmission-control
  10. AI-Era Architecture advanced

    Legal asks whether customer personal data is being sent to your model provider. What must you be able to answer?

    2 min answer privacyaicompliance
  11. AI-Era Architecture advanced

    You are asked to give an internal AI agent access to the customer database, the ticketing system and outbound email so it can resolve support tickets. What is your response?

    2 min answer agentssecurityprompt-injectionhitl
  12. AI Gateways advanced

    A platform routes all model calls through an internal gateway. What belongs there, and what must not?

    2 min answer ai-gatewayroutingquotascaching