Interview prompt
Problem context
A company has thirty autonomous teams and inconsistent approaches to tenancy, APIs, events, observability, and recovery. Leadership asks for architecture standards, while teams fear a review board that slows delivery. Design principles and governance.
Skills being evaluated
architecture governanceplatform alignmentfederated decision-makingincentive design
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Clarify the decision
Establish scale assumptions
Functional and non-functional requirements
High-level architecture
Data model and flow
Consistency and transaction boundaries
Failure modes and recovery
Security and privacy
Observability and SLOs
Capacity and cost
Alternatives and trade-offs
Evolution and migration
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