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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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6 questions in Streaming Cost.

  1. Streaming Cost advanced

    A connected-vehicle telemetry pipeline's cost is growing faster than the fleet. Where does the cost go, and what reduces it?

    2 min answer athertelemetrycostfiltering
  2. Streaming Cost intermediate

    A marketplace platform at Flipkart's scale runs three separate Kafka clusters for orders, device telemetry and experimentation. Consolidating them into one shared cluster cuts the infrastructure bill by about 40%. What did that 40% buy, and when does the bill arrive?

    2 min answer flipkartmulti-tenancyquotasstreaming-cost
  3. Streaming Cost beginner

    A streaming job handles about 400 events per second in business hours and under 5 per second overnight. The team expected the bill to track the volume. It is flat at roughly 55 dollars a day whatever the traffic does. Why is it flat and what is the cheaper shape if a 10-minute delay is acceptable?

    2 min answer costmicro-batchingalways-onduty-cycle
  4. Streaming Cost advanced

    A streaming pipeline's cost grows faster than its event volume. What are the drivers?

    1 min answer streaming-coststatepartitionsretention
  5. Streaming Cost advanced

    A streaming platform's cloud bill is dominated by a line item nobody recognises: inter-zone data transfer. Explain and fix.

    2 min answer finopsstreamingnetworking
  6. Streaming Cost intermediate Multiple choice

    A topic ingests 200 MB per second, replication factor 3, retained 30 days. Producers and consumers are spread across 3 availability zones with no rack awareness in the consumers. Roughly what does the storage footprint come to?

    3 min answer kafkacostretentionreplication