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2948 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 areas2948 Architecture Fundamentals91 Distributed Systems101 Data Architecture90 Cloud Architecture87 Networking96 API & Integration Architecture87 Reliability & Resilience99 Observability92 Performance & Capacity Engineering100 Security Architecture105 Cost Architecture & FinOps102 Business Architecture103 Architecture Communication102 Enterprise Architecture100 Legacy Modernization102 AI-Era Architecture106 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 Tool Calling.

  1. Tool Calling advanced

    A commerce platform exposes tools for a model to call. How should the tool interface be designed, and what differs from designing an API for developers?

    2 min answer tool-callinginterface-designerrorssafety
  2. Tool Calling beginner

    A team gives an assistant five tools. A task that needs four tool calls costs roughly six times a plain answer and takes about 9 seconds end to end, and the team expected the tools to be nearly free. What actually happens on each tool call?

    3 min answer tool-callingagent-looplatencytoken-cost
  3. Tool Calling advanced

    An agent can query the customer database, send emails and issue refunds. What is your security design?

    2 min answer agentssecurityauthorization
  4. Tool Calling intermediate

    An agent resolves support tickets in an average of 8 tool calls. A downstream inventory tool that used to answer in 80 ms starts taking 6 s but still returns correct results. Nothing errors and no circuit breaker trips. What happens, second by second?

    3 min answer tool-callingagentstimeoutsbackpressure
  5. Tool Calling advanced

    An agent's search tool begins returning about 20000 tokens per call instead of 200 after an upstream API change. The agent makes up to 12 tool calls per task and nothing in the agent code changed. What happens, turn by turn, and what mechanism stops it?

    3 min answer tool callingcontext windowtruncationprompt caching