Production RAG Systems: A Reliability Checklist
Most RAG systems work in demos and fail in production. Use this checklist to harden retrieval, chunking, evaluation, freshness, and guardrails before users feel the gaps.
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Most RAG systems work in demos and fail in production. Use this checklist to harden retrieval, chunking, evaluation, freshness, and guardrails before users feel the gaps.
A practical guide to deploying open-source LLMs with vLLM on Kubernetes — covering GPU sizing, request routing, autoscaling, batching, and safe rollouts.
How to design an LLM gateway for production use cases, including multi-model routing, guardrails, quotas, usage logging, and cost-aware fallbacks.
How to serve many ML models on shared infrastructure without noisy-neighbor problems, unpredictable latency, or runaway GPU spend.
A practical guide to batching LLM inference workloads, including static batching, dynamic batching, queue controls, and when higher throughput starts hurting latency.
Why prompts need versioning, change control, and rollback paths just like code and model releases, especially when LLM behavior changes under real traffic.
Why standard API load-testing assumptions break for LLM inference, and how to design tests that reflect token generation, concurrency, and real serving bottlenecks.
How to define service level objectives for AI systems when correctness is probabilistic, outputs are variable, and traditional uptime metrics miss user-facing failures.
How to measure token-level inference spend in production and add practical controls around prompt size, output limits, routing, caching, and tenant budgets.
How to secure AI APIs in production with authentication, tenant isolation, rate limiting, prompt abuse controls, and safer traffic handling around expensive model endpoints.
How to evaluate LLM output variants when the response is free-form text, using pairwise comparison, rubric scoring, human review, and practical experimental design.
How to build an evaluation pipeline for ML and LLM systems that continuously catches regressions in quality, policy behavior, cost, and runtime health before they hit production users.
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