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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
Difficulty Any beginner intermediate advanced

4 questions in Paved Road & Golden Path.

  1. Paved Road & Golden Path intermediate

    A team says the golden path cannot support their workload and wants to build their own deployment tooling. How do you respond?

    2 min answer platformstandardsautonomy
  2. Paved Road & Golden Path beginner

    In August 2020 Spotify's engineering blog described the problem its golden paths were built to solve as "rumour-driven development" - the only way to find out how to do something was to ask a colleague. What does that diagnosis say a golden path has to ship beyond working tooling, and what did Spotify give up by recommending a set of tools?

    3 min answer spotifygolden pathdiscoverabilitydeveloper experience
  3. Paved Road & Golden Path intermediate

    Review this golden path. A new service starts with a portal form of 34 required fields; an architecture reviewer approves it within two days; the generator then creates a repository with build and deploy wired in. It does not create the database, the DNS record or the on-call rota, which are three tickets taking four to nine days. In the last year 18 of 60 new services went through it. What would you remove, what would you change, and what would you leave alone?

    3 min answer golden pathself-serviceadoptionreview
  4. Paved Road & Golden Path intermediate

    What makes a paved road actually get used, and what is the mistake that undermines it?

    2 min answer paved-roadadoptionspeedvariation