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275 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 areas275 Architecture Fundamentals9 Distributed Systems26 Data Architecture23 Cloud Architecture19 Networking17 API & Integration Architecture13 Reliability & Resilience9 Observability8 Performance & Capacity Engineering6 Security Architecture16 Cost Architecture & FinOps6 Business Architecture7 Architecture Communication6 Enterprise Architecture6 Legacy Modernization7 AI-Era Architecture6 Software Architecture & Engineering6 Architecture Patterns6 Architecture Decision-Making12 The Architect's Meta-Skills6 Delivery & Release Engineering6 Platform Engineering & Developer Experience6 Testing & Quality Architecture6 Data Platform Architecture6 Streaming & Real-Time Data6 Data Governance & Semantics6 Frontend & Experience Architecture6 Edge, Mobile & IoT6 Regulatory & Data Protection Architecture6 Assurance, Audit & Model Risk7
Difficulty Any beginner intermediate advanced

6 questions in Platform Engineering.

  1. Cluster Architecture advanced

    Your platform team of five spends nearly all its capacity upgrading control planes across 38 Kubernetes clusters. How did this happen and how do you fix it?

    2 min answer platformkubernetesconsolidationoperations
  2. Internal Developer Platform advanced

    Leadership asks whether to build an internal developer platform or buy one. Twelve teams, forty services, growing. How do you frame the decision?

    2 min answer platformbuild-vs-buydeveloper-experience
  3. Platform Adoption advanced

    Your internal platform has been live for a year. Six of twenty teams use it; the rest built their own pipelines. The CTO proposes mandating it. What is your advice?

    2 min answer platformadoptiondeveloper-experiencegovernance
  4. Platform Engineering advanced

    You are forming a platform team of four to serve twelve product teams. What do you build first?

    1 min answer platformsequencingdeveloper-experience
  5. Platform SLOs advanced

    Application teams say the platform is unreliable. The platform team's dashboard shows 99.95% on every component. How do you resolve this?

    2 min answer platformslomeasurementtrust
  6. Self-Service Provisioning advanced

    Your platform team is now a ticket queue — every environment, every permission, every new service goes through them. How do you get out of it?

    1 min answer platformself-servicebottleneckautomation