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2707 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 areas2707 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 Architecture96 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 Architecture98 Streaming & Real-Time Data93 Data Governance & Semantics91 Frontend & Experience Architecture91 Edge, Mobile & IoT88 Regulatory & Data Protection Architecture90 Assurance, Audit & Model Risk98
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2 questions in Internal Developer Platform.

  1. Internal Developer Platform intermediate

    Review this. A 12-engineer startup with 6 services has built an internal developer platform - a React portal, a YAML DSL that generates Terraform, a bespoke secrets service backed by cloud KMS, a service catalogue and a maturity scorecard with 23 checks. Two of the twelve engineers work on it full time. Deploys take 14 minutes and the DSL covers about 60% of what teams need, with the rest hand-written Terraform merged by those two engineers. What would you remove, what would you change, and what would you leave alone?

    3 min answer internal developer platformpragmatismabstractionbuild-vs-buy
  2. Internal Developer Platform intermediate

    Your service catalogue says every service has an owner. Investigating an incident, you find the named owner left the company eight months ago. How do you prevent this class of problem?

    2 min answer catalogueownershipmetadata