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2627 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 areas2627 Architecture Fundamentals81 Distributed Systems101 Data Architecture90 Cloud Architecture77 Networking86 API & Integration Architecture78 Reliability & Resilience88 Observability81 Performance & Capacity Engineering90 Security Architecture85 Cost Architecture & FinOps82 Business Architecture93 Architecture Communication91 Enterprise Architecture91 Legacy Modernization82 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

23 questions in AI-Era Architecture.

  1. AI Cost Management intermediate

    A product embeds model calls in several features and spend is growing unpredictably. What controls actually bound it?

    2 min answer posthogcosttokenscaching
  2. AI-Era Architecture intermediate Multiple choice

    A client wants an assistant that answers questions from 50,000 internal documents which change weekly. RAG or fine-tuning? What actually determines the quality?

    2 min answer ragllmretrievalarchitecture
  3. AI Gateways intermediate

    Several product teams call model providers directly. What does introducing an AI gateway buy, and what does it cost?

    2 min answer credgatewayabstractioncost
  4. AI Gateways intermediate

    Six teams are calling model providers directly from their applications. Justify an AI gateway, and say what it should not do.

    2 min answer platformgovernancecost
  5. Chunking & Retrieval intermediate

    A live assistant serves 1.8M documents chunked at a fixed 512 tokens with no overlap. You need to move to structure-aware chunks of about 900 tokens with 15% overlap and a newer embedding model, with no downtime and no quality regression. What is the sequence?

    3 min answer chunkingre-embeddingmigrationshadow-traffic
  6. Chunking & Retrieval intermediate

    Users report the assistant gets numbers wrong when answering from documents containing tables. Diagnose.

    2 min answer ragchunkingquality
  7. Guardrails intermediate

    An AI feature needs guardrails on inputs and outputs. Where should they run, and what is the latency and reliability consequence?

    2 min answer mistralguardrailssafetylatency
  8. Guardrails intermediate Multiple choice

    Your output safety classifier blocks 0.3% of responses in English and 6% in Portuguese and Turkish. Complaints arrive only from those two markets. The vendor confirms the same model version serves every region and reports no incident. Where do you look first?

    3 min answer guardrailsclassifierscalibrationlocalisation
  9. Human in the Loop intermediate

    A platform uses AI to propose substitutions when items are unavailable. Where should the human sit in the loop, and what determines it?

    2 min answer human-in-the-loopautonomyconfidenceescalation
  10. ML Platform intermediate

    A machine-learning platform must ingest telemetry from many concurrent training runs. What are the workload's distinguishing characteristics?

    2 min answer weights-biasesml-platformtelemetryingestion
  11. Model Selection intermediate Multiple choice

    A client wants a model that follows their specific document formatting conventions and answers from their knowledge base. What do you recommend?

    2 min answer ragfine-tuningarchitecture
  12. Model Selection intermediate

    A content platform must choose between a large hosted model, a smaller hosted model and a self-hosted open model for a moderation task. What decides it?

    2 min answer sharechatmodel-selectioncostlatency