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2741 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 areas2741 Architecture Fundamentals81 Distributed Systems101 Data Architecture90 Cloud Architecture87 Networking86 API & Integration Architecture78 Reliability & Resilience99 Observability92 Performance & Capacity Engineering90 Security Architecture95 Cost Architecture & FinOps92 Business Architecture93 Architecture Communication91 Enterprise Architecture91 Legacy Modernization92 AI-Era Architecture96 Software Architecture & Engineering84 Architecture Patterns84 Architecture Decision-Making91 The Architect's Meta-Skills92 Delivery & Release Engineering93 Platform Engineering & Developer Experience92 Testing & Quality Architecture102 Data Platform Architecture98 Streaming & Real-Time Data93 Data Governance & Semantics91 Frontend & Experience Architecture91 Edge, Mobile & IoT88 Regulatory & Data Protection Architecture90 Assurance, Audit & Model Risk98
Difficulty Any beginner intermediate advanced

65 questions in Streaming & Real-Time Data.

  1. Watermarks & Late Data advanced

    Mobile clients buffer events offline and deliver them hours later. How should watermarks and late data be handled?

    2 min answer watermarkslate-datamobilecorrectness
  2. Watermarks & Late Data advanced

    Your streaming aggregate reports 2% lower daily revenue than the batch reconciliation. Both are "correct". Explain what is happening and how you resolve it.

    2 min answer streamingwatermarkslate-datacorrectness
  3. Windowing advanced

    Surge pricing must reflect supply and demand from seconds ago, apply consistently to everyone in an area, and never change mid-request. What is the architecture?

    2 min answer uberpricingstreamingconsistency
  4. Windowing advanced

    Which windowing strategy fits which metric, and what is the property that breaks naive windowing?

    2 min answer windowingtumblingslidingsession
  5. Windowing advanced

    You implement session windows for user activity analysis. Downstream reports keep changing after publication. Explain.

    2 min answer windowingretractionssemantics
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