Cloud-Native Systems, AI, Trade-Offs, Failure, and Design Review

This volume addresses contemporary architectural concerns that often define real projects today: cloud-native deployment models, the use of AI within systems, unavoidable design trade-offs, failure-aware thinking, and the need to review architecture with rigour rather than optimism.

It serves as an advanced capstone to the series by tying together strategy, execution, and evaluation. Readers are encouraged to think critically about whether a design is technically sound, operationally defensible, and capable of withstanding rigorous review under real-world constraints.