Architecture interviews are all about trade-offs. These questions test whether you can design systems that balance scalability, cost, reliability, and complexity.
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Question 1
A fintech startup with 10 engineers asks you whether to build their new payment processing system as a monolith or microservices. They need to launch in three months. What do you recommend?