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2908 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 areas2908 Architecture Fundamentals91 Distributed Systems101 Data Architecture90 Cloud Architecture87 Networking86 API & Integration Architecture87 Reliability & Resilience99 Observability92 Performance & Capacity Engineering100 Security Architecture95 Cost Architecture & FinOps102 Business Architecture103 Architecture Communication102 Enterprise Architecture100 Legacy Modernization92 AI-Era Architecture96 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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5 questions in Agent Architectures.

  1. Agent Architectures advanced

    A platform builds an agent that plans and executes multi-step tasks against business systems. Which architectural constraints are non-negotiable?

    2 min answer agentsboundsauthorisationidempotency
  2. Agent Architectures advanced

    A team is building an agent that plans and executes multi-step tasks. What architectural bounds must exist, and what usually goes wrong?

    2 min answer modalagentsboundstools
  3. Agent Architectures advanced

    An agent resolves support tickets in up to 20 steps. The pod running one agent is evicted at step 12, after the agent has already created a ticket and sent a customer email. Walk through what happens next, and what must be true for the retry to be safe.

    3 min answer agent-architecturesdurabilityidempotencyworkflow
  4. Agent Architectures advanced

    An agent that researches and summarises occasionally runs for 40 minutes and costs £30 for one request. How do you contain it?

    2 min answer agentscostcontrol
  5. Agent Architectures advanced

    Review this design. A finance team's invoice processor uses a planner agent that decomposes each invoice into subtasks, a critic agent that reviews the plan, a vector store of the last 50000 processed invoices as episodic memory, a 40-step tool loop, and a human queue for anything the critic flags. The task is to extract six fields and post them to the ledger. What would you remove and what would you keep?

    3 min answer agentsover-engineeringstructured-outputdeterminism