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Practical guides, architecture notes, and lessons from shipping GenAI to production.

Designing SLOs and Error Budgets for Production GenAI Systems

Designing SLOs and Error Budgets for Production GenAI Systems

A production guide to GenAI SLOs beyond uptime: quality, grounding, latency, abstention, tool success, cost, safety, and how to turn them into budgets, alerts, release gates, and runbooks.

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Speculative Retrieval for Production RAG: Hiding Search Latency Without Wasting Tokens or Fetching the Wrong Context

Speculative Retrieval for Production RAG: Hiding Search Latency Without Wasting Tokens or Fetching the Wrong Context

A production guide to speculative retrieval in RAG: intent prediction, partial-query prefetch, cancellation, ACL safety, observability, evals, and cost/latency tradeoffs.

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Failure-Tolerant JSON Streaming for LLM Applications: Designing Incremental Structured Output That Survives Interruptions

Failure-Tolerant JSON Streaming for LLM Applications: Designing Incremental Structured Output That Survives Interruptions

A production-focused guide to streaming structured JSON from LLMs safely despite truncation, retries, schema drift, and disconnects, with architecture, evals, and fallback patterns.

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Counterfactual Evaluation for LLM Systems: Measuring Whether Retrieval, Routing, or Prompt Changes Actually Caused the Outcome

Counterfactual Evaluation for LLM Systems: Measuring Whether Retrieval, Routing, or Prompt Changes Actually Caused the Outcome

A production-focused guide to counterfactual evaluation for GenAI systems: isolating the causal impact of retrieval, routing, prompts, tool policy, and guardrails with replay, interventions, and attribution.

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Choosing Between Long-Context Models and Retrieval Pipelines: A Production Decision Framework

Choosing Between Long-Context Models and Retrieval Pipelines: A Production Decision Framework

A production-focused framework for deciding when long-context models beat RAG, when retrieval wins, and how to evaluate hybrid architectures under real cost, latency, and recall constraints.

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Evaluating Retrieval Coverage Before RAG Launch: How to Find Corpus Gaps, Metadata Blind Spots, and Unanswerable Query Classes

Evaluating Retrieval Coverage Before RAG Launch: How to Find Corpus Gaps, Metadata Blind Spots, and Unanswerable Query Classes

A production-focused guide to testing whether your corpus can answer expected RAG queries, uncovering corpus gaps, metadata blind spots, and unanswerable classes before launch.

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Designing Async and Queue-Based Execution for Long-Running LLM Workflows

Designing Async and Queue-Based Execution for Long-Running LLM Workflows

A production-focused guide to moving long-running LAG and tool-using LLM tasks out of the request path with async APIs, queues, resumable workflows, retries, observability, and SLA-aware execution.

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Token Budgeting as a First-Class Design Constraint in Agentic and RAG Workflows

Token Budgeting as a First-Class Design Constraint in Agentic and RAG Workflows

A production guide to designing agentic and RAG systems around token limits, with budgeting, compression, adaptive context, routing, evals, and observability patterns.

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Circuit Breakers for LLM Agents: Stopping Runaway Tool Loops Before They Burn Budget or Cause Side Effects

Circuit Breakers for LLM Agents: Stopping Runaway Tool Loops Before They Burn Budget or Cause Side Effects

A production guide to circuit breakers for LLM agents: stop runaway tool loops with runtime trip conditions, budgets, side-effect containment, fallbacks, observability, and evals.

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Offline Replay Testing for Production GenAI: Using Real Traces to Validate Prompt, Retrieval, and Routing Changes Safely

Offline Replay Testing for Production GenAI: Using Real Traces to Validate Prompt, Retrieval, and Routing Changes Safely

A production-focused guide to building offline replay harnesses for GenAI systems with real traces to validate prompt, retrieval, routing, and tool changes before release.

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Prompt Injection Resilience in Enterprise RAG and Agents: A Defense-in-Depth Playbook

Prompt Injection Resilience in Enterprise RAG and Agents: A Defense-in-Depth Playbook

A production-focused guide to hardening enterprise RAG and agent systems against prompt injection across retrieval, tools, web, and memory using layered controls, evals, and observability.

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Designing Policy-as-Code Guardrails for Production GenAI: Enforcing Safety, Compliance, and Action Limits at Runtime

Designing Policy-as-Code Guardrails for Production GenAI: Enforcing Safety, Compliance, and Action Limits at Runtime

A production guide to implementing GenAI guardrails as executable policy layers across inputs, retrieval, tools, outputs, approvals, and side effects—without wrecking quality, latency, or developer velocity.

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