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2777 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 areas2777 Architecture Fundamentals81 Distributed Systems101 Data Architecture90 Cloud Architecture87 Networking86 API & Integration Architecture87 Reliability & Resilience99 Observability92 Performance & Capacity Engineering90 Security Architecture95 Cost Architecture & FinOps92 Business Architecture93 Architecture Communication91 Enterprise Architecture100 Legacy Modernization92 AI-Era Architecture96 Software Architecture & Engineering93 Architecture Patterns84 Architecture Decision-Making91 The Architect's Meta-Skills92 Delivery & Release Engineering93 Platform Engineering & Developer Experience92 Testing & Quality Architecture102 Data Platform Architecture98 Streaming & Real-Time Data93 Data Governance & Semantics91 Frontend & Experience Architecture91 Edge, Mobile & IoT88 Regulatory & Data Protection Architecture99 Assurance, Audit & Model Risk98

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2777 questions.

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An enterprise architecture function reports on standards compliance and diagram coverage. Leadership cannot tell whether it is adding value. What should it measure instead?

How would you demonstrate that an architecture practice is worth its cost?

Leadership wants to buy an enterprise architecture repository tool. How do you advise?

Shared platform costs are £4.8M a year and currently split evenly across 30 engineering teams. Teams complain the number is arbitrary, nobody reduces usage, and two teams generate most of the load. Which allocation model should replace it?

A content and application platform must choose between many small points of presence and fewer larger regional sites. What trades off?

A content platform must decide what runs at the edge, in a region, and centrally. How should the topology be reasoned about?

A ride-hailing platform in the mould of Grab operates in eight cities across four countries. Matching a rider to a driver needs the live positions of nearby drivers and must answer in under 500 ms. Payments, identity and analytics are central. Where should the matching engine run?

A team proposes moving an API to edge functions to reduce latency for international users. What do you check before agreeing?

A team moves request signing from one region to an edge platform. p50 falls from 140 ms to 35 ms and p99 rises from 220 ms to 900 ms. Error rate is unchanged and the platform reports no throttling. Which mechanism most likely explains the tail?

A team proposes moving personalisation to edge functions to cut latency. When does that work and when does it backfire?

An e-commerce product page has cacheable content, a personalised recommendation strip, a logged-in header and a live stock indicator. What runs at the edge and where does each piece of state live?

Walk me through this one. An executive has read that a delivery network runs more than four thousand points of presence and wants product personalisation moved to the edge this quarter. You have fifteen minutes with them. What do you establish and what do you refuse?