Analyzing Architectural Risk

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Analyzes a concrete web testing system "make the grade" that must handle 20 to 120,000 concurrent students and guarantee no lost answers. Identifies high-risk areas (signin, test taker, queue, autograder), shows mitigation tactics like caching, sharding, autoscaling and federating queues, and suggests persistent brokers such as Kafka. Proposes collaborative riskstorming to quantify impact/likelihood and automated architectural fitness functions (checksums, error streams, trend/threshold alerts) to measure whether fixes actually reduce risk.

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1. 0:00Introduction to architectural risk
2. 7:53Determining risk dimensions
3. 16:35Identifying architectural risks
4. 29:29Mitigating identified risks
5. 36:38Measuring risk with fitness functions
6. 47:16Continuous risk assessment process
7. 49:46Closing and Q&A

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