The Computing Series

F5 — The 7 Architecture Review Questions

# Question What It Catches
Q1 How does it scale? FM3, FM6 — resource exhaustion, hotspots
Q2 How does it fail? FM1, FM2 — SPOF, cascades
Q3 Where is the state? FM4, FM12 — consistency, split-brain
Q4 What is the latency budget? FM5 — amplification
Q5 How does it evolve? FM8 — contract violations
Q6 How is it secured? FM10 — breach
Q7 Can we observe it? FM11 — blindness
Q8* What does it cost? Viability at scale

*Q8 is the CTO-layer addition.

Dependency chain: Answer Q3 before Q7. Answer Q2 before Q5. Gaps are the primary output of a review.


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