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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.

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91 questions in Architecture Decision-Making.

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A team must ship a major capability quickly and the design that ships fastest is not the one that is easiest to maintain. How should the trade-off be made?

How would you make the case for a two-sprint refactor to a product manager under delivery pressure?

A platform runs several self-managed stateful systems. What evidence should decide whether to move to managed services?

A team is deciding whether to keep using a managed service or bring it in-house. What trigger should govern the decision, and what asymmetry usually settles it?

A team is deciding whether to run a database, broker or search engine itself or to use a managed service. What actually drives the decision, and which arguments are usually wrong?

Under what circumstances would you self-manage a message broker rather than use a managed service, and how would you justify it?

Your team runs a large self-managed streaming cluster. Two engineers hold most of the operational knowledge. A managed alternative exists. How do you decide?

A B2B analytics company runs 40 services with 12 engineers. Deploys are independent, but a typical feature touches four services and takes three weeks to reach production. Review this architecture: what would you merge, what would you leave alone, and how would you argue it?

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?