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Palantir's Platform: Foundry, AIP, Gotham and Apollo

Palantir invented the forward deployed model and its product vocabulary shows up in FDSE interviews as assumed knowledge. Foundry is the data-to-decisions platform built around the Ontology, AIP puts models inside that governed layer, Gotham serves defense and intelligence, and Apollo is how all of it ships into environments nobody can SSH into.

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RELATED CONCEPTS

The Ontology (Semantic Layer)VPC and Air-Gapped Deployment MCP (Model Context Protocol)RBAC, ABAC and Identity at Runtime for Agents From Proof-of-Concept to Production

LESSONS THAT TEACH THIS

The FDE EngagementRoute every write through a named action, and who-changed-what becomes a query15 min→

PRACTICE THIS IN REAL QUESTIONS

System Design & Production EngineeringYou get a vague prompt like 'design a system to detect fraud.' What do you do in the first ten minutes?→System Design & Production EngineeringDecompose: design a system to detect credit-card fraud.→System Design & Production EngineeringDecompose: design a system to coordinate disaster response for a city.→System Design & Production EngineeringDecompose: merge patient records across a network of hospitals.→System Design & Production EngineeringDecompose: design a system to route a fleet of delivery trucks.→System Design & Production EngineeringDecompose: predict flight delays, and survive the interviewer changing the rules every five minutes.→