Quiz
2988 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 areas2988
Architecture Fundamentals91
Distributed Systems111
Data Architecture100
Cloud Architecture97
Networking96
API & Integration Architecture97
Reliability & Resilience99
Observability92
Performance & Capacity Engineering100
Security Architecture105
Cost Architecture & FinOps102
Business Architecture103
Architecture Communication102
Enterprise Architecture100
Legacy Modernization102
AI-Era Architecture106
Software Architecture & Engineering93
Architecture Patterns94
Architecture Decision-Making101
The Architect's Meta-Skills102
Delivery & Release Engineering103
Platform Engineering & Developer Experience102
Testing & Quality Architecture102
Data Platform Architecture98
Streaming & Real-Time Data103
Data Governance & Semantics91
Frontend & Experience Architecture101
Edge, Mobile & IoT98
Regulatory & Data Protection Architecture99
Assurance, Audit & Model Risk98
3 questions in API Gateway.
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API Gateway advanced
A developer platform's API gateway has accumulated business logic and become a bottleneck for every team. What should be moved out, and what belongs there?
2 min answer api-gatewayscopebottleneckdistributed-monolith -
API Gateway advanced
A public API is being overwhelmed by a handful of clients. Where should rate limiting live, which algorithm, and how should limits differ across users, tenants, endpoints and infrastructure?
3 min answer rate-limitinggatewaycloudflaremulti-tenancy -
API Gateway advanced
A ticketing platform at Ticketmaster's on-sale peaks routes everything through one gateway. Gateway to BFF to inventory is three hops and each hop retries up to three times on a timeout or a 5xx. Inventory's p99 crosses its 400 ms timeout at 09:00:02. Walk the next ninety seconds and say where the limit actually has to live.
3 min answer api gatewayretriesretry budgetadmission control