Technical Architecture and Tradeoffs Questions

Demonstrating technical depth through architecture walkthroughs and rationale for key choices. Candidates should be able to describe main components, data flow, integration points, and how design choices map to requirements. Discussion should include tradeoffs such as latency versus consistency, simplicity versus scalability, cost versus performance, and operational considerations like redundancy, failover, monitoring, and observability. Also explain how architecture decisions affect scope, timeline, testing, and risk mitigation.