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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 Networking.

  1. Networking intermediate

    A user in Mumbai types your URL and presses enter. Walk me through every hop until the HTML reaches their browser. Where would you look first if the page were slow?

    2 min answer networkingdnstlscdn
  2. Networking intermediate

    Design the network layout for a three-tier application in one cloud region. What are the decisions you cannot easily change later?

    2 min answer vpcsubnetssegmentationcloud
  3. Networking advanced

    In the October 2021 Meta outage, engineers reportedly struggled to physically access equipment because the access-control systems were also down. What class of dependency is that, and how do you find yours?

    2 min answer bgpdnsdependenciesout-of-band