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98 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 areas98 Architecture Fundamentals2 Distributed Systems26 Data Architecture23 Cloud Architecture4 Networking3 API & Integration Architecture1 Reliability & Resilience4 Observability3 Performance & Capacity Engineering3 Security Architecture3 Cost Architecture & FinOps3 Business Architecture2 Architecture Communication2 Enterprise Architecture1 Legacy Modernization2 AI-Era Architecture3 Software Architecture & Engineering3 Architecture Patterns3 Architecture Decision-Making6 The Architect's Meta-Skills1
Difficulty Any beginner intermediate advanced

3 questions in Cost & FinOps.

  1. Cost & FinOps advanced

    A design review presents a new event-driven platform. What cost questions do you ask before approving it?

    2 min answer finopscost-modelreviewegress
  2. Cost & FinOps intermediate

    Finance wants to cut cloud spend by committing to one-year and three-year reservations. What do you commit to, and what could go wrong?

    2 min answer finopscommitmentsreservationscost
  3. Cost & FinOps intermediate

    The cloud bill has tripled in six months while traffic grew 40%. How do you find out why, and what do you expect to find?

    2 min answer finopscostdiagnosisegress