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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

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87 questions in Cloud Architecture.

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A commerce platform runs many teams' services on Kubernetes and must survive flash-sale traffic without one team's workload harming another. What cluster and tenancy design should it use?

A latency-sensitive service shows periodic latency spikes. CPU utilisation on the node is 40%. What do you check first?

A monolith is moved to Kubernetes and the team discovers pod restarts drop in-flight requests and kill long-running jobs. What is actually happening, and what must be configured?

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

One service restarts unpredictably; another is slow with low CPU. Both run on Kubernetes. What are you looking at?

A large enterprise is starting a cloud programme across dozens of business units with different regulatory obligations. What must the landing zone establish before the first workload, and what is the cost of getting it wrong?

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?

An organisation has 200 cloud accounts created ad hoc, with overlapping IP ranges and no consistent controls. Where do you start?

An organisation is starting cloud adoption. Three teams want to deploy next month. What must exist first, and what can wait?

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?

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

A team wants to self-manage Kafka on Kubernetes to save money against the managed service. Evaluate.