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From Prototype to Production: Deploying LLM Systems
Fakhar · · 7 min read
Getting an LLM feature to work is the easy part. Keeping it fast, affordable and available under real traffic is where engineering matters.
Design for failure
- Timeouts and retries with backoff
- Fallback models when a provider degrades
- Caching for repeated or similar requests
- Rate limiting per user and per tenant
Measure cost per request from day one. It is far easier to design for a budget than to retrofit one.