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2948 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 areas2948 Architecture Fundamentals91 Distributed Systems101 Data Architecture90 Cloud Architecture87 Networking96 API & Integration Architecture87 Reliability & Resilience99 Observability92 Performance & Capacity Engineering100 Security Architecture105 Cost Architecture & FinOps102 Business Architecture103 Architecture Communication102 Enterprise Architecture100 Legacy Modernization102 AI-Era Architecture106 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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2948 questions.

Quiz

A new product, one team of eight, uncertain requirements, ambitious growth plans. Monolith or microservices?

A platform must choose between a modular monolith and microservices for a new product line. What evidence should decide it?

A team of fifteen wants to start a new product as microservices. How do you advise?

A research assistant runs a planner that fans out to four worker agents and a synthesiser that writes the final answer. One worker retrieves the wrong document and returns a fluent confident summary of it. What happens downstream and what stops it?

A team proposes decomposing a workflow into several specialised agents that coordinate. What justifies this over a single agent with more tools, and what does it cost?

A team proposes five specialised agents that collaborate to handle a customer request. Assess.

Interview prompt. A supervisor agent fans out to five worker agents that each call tools with real side effects - creating tickets, sending emails, updating records. One worker fails at its fourth tool call, after two of those side effects have already happened. Tell me what the system does next.

A payments company moves to serving live traffic from two cloud providers at once so that no single provider outage can stop payments. Twelve months later measured availability is lower than it was on one provider and there has been no provider outage. What did they buy and what did they pay?

An AI company needs enormous accelerator capacity that no single provider can supply on the timeline required. Is this a valid reason for multi-cloud, and what does it cost compared with the usual multi-cloud justifications?

An organisation proposes a multi-cloud architecture for resilience. What evidence would justify it, and what does it actually cost?