> Next, you cover the whiteboard in boxes, arrows, and at least one redundant Kubernetes cluster. Add a message queue, Kafka obviously, regardless of whether you need one. Sprinkle in some microservices because monoliths are for peasants, and draw load balancers like protective talismans around every component.

Loved this. TFA is so true: interviewing is unfortunately a performance (for both sides, but mainly the interviewee).