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2667 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 areas2667 Architecture Fundamentals81 Distributed Systems101 Data Architecture90 Cloud Architecture87 Networking86 API & Integration Architecture78 Reliability & Resilience88 Observability81 Performance & Capacity Engineering90 Security Architecture95 Cost Architecture & FinOps92 Business Architecture93 Architecture Communication91 Enterprise Architecture91 Legacy Modernization92 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

30 questions in Cloud Architecture.

  1. Kubernetes intermediate

    A team of five running four services wants to adopt Kubernetes. Do you support it?

    2 min answer complexitydecisionplatform
  2. Landing Zones intermediate

    An enterprise SaaS company grows from one cloud account to hundreds across many teams. What structure prevents this from becoming ungovernable, and what is the wrong way to impose it?

    2 min answer freshworkslanding-zonegovernanceguardrails
  3. Managed Services intermediate

    A platform distributes very large model and dataset artefacts to a global developer community, with a small number of artefacts accounting for most downloads. Which parts should be managed services, and which are worth building?

    2 min answer managed-servicescdnartefact-distributionbuild-vs-buy
  4. Managed Services intermediate

    A startup must decide between building infrastructure internally and adopting managed services. What should the evaluation actually weigh?

    2 min answer supabasemanaged-servicesbuild-vs-buytco
  5. Serverless intermediate

    A news organisation's publishing pipeline runs rarely during quiet periods and intensely around major events, performing image processing, rendering and distribution. Where does serverless fit, and where would it be a mistake?

    2 min answer serverlessevent-drivencold-startpublishing
  6. Serverless intermediate

    A team is choosing between serverless functions and long-running containers for a new workload. What evidence should drive the decision, and which arguments on both sides are usually wrong?

    2 min answer serverlesscontainerscost-per-requestcold-start