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2908 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 areas2908 Architecture Fundamentals91 Distributed Systems101 Data Architecture90 Cloud Architecture87 Networking86 API & Integration Architecture87 Reliability & Resilience99 Observability92 Performance & Capacity Engineering100 Security Architecture95 Cost Architecture & FinOps102 Business Architecture103 Architecture Communication102 Enterprise Architecture100 Legacy Modernization92 AI-Era Architecture96 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
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4 questions in Rebuild vs Re-architect.

  1. Rebuild vs Re-architect advanced

    A 15-year-old system is unmaintainable. The team wants a full rewrite. What do you advise?

    2 min answer modernizationriskdecision
  2. Rebuild vs Re-architect advanced

    A platform's core system cannot support a capability the business needs. The team proposes a rebuild. What must be true for rebuild to beat incremental re-architecture?

    2 min answer rebuildrewriteincrementalrisk
  3. Rebuild vs Re-architect advanced

    An organisation running Kafka at trillions of messages per day concludes the coordination and rebalancing model no longer fits and builds a replacement. What evidence should exist before replacing a proven system rather than tuning it?

    3 min answer linkedinkafkanorthguardreplacement
  4. Rebuild vs Re-architect advanced

    YouTube's database team was running a growing fleet of MySQL instances with sharding logic spread through application code. Rather than replace MySQL or rewrite the application, they built Vitess as a routing tier between the two, open-sourcing it in 2011; it graduated in the CNCF in 2019. What did that choice buy, what did it cost, and where would copying it be a mistake?

    3 min answer youtubevitessshardingproxy layer
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