Guides on AI/ML system design, LLM application architecture, MLOps pipelines,
AI SaaS platform selection (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Vertex AI, AWS Bedrock,
Azure OpenAI, Hugging Face, Cohere, Replicate, Together AI), model serving,
feature stores, experiment tracking, evaluation frameworks, RAG architecture,
AI agent patterns, responsible AI, cost optimization, and emerging AI/ML trends.
Use when designing AI systems, selecting AI providers, building LLM applications,
setting up MLOps, or evaluating AI architecture patterns.
Guides on AI/ML system design, LLM application architecture, MLOps pipelines,
AI SaaS platform selection (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Vertex AI, AWS Bedrock,
Azure OpenAI, Hugging Face, Cohere, Replicate, Together AI), model serving,
feature stores, experiment tracking, evaluation frameworks, RAG architecture,
AI agent patterns, responsible AI, cost optimization, and emerging AI/ML trends.
Use when designing AI systems, selecting AI providers, building LLM applications,
setting up MLOps, or evaluating AI architecture patterns.
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Decision Framework
When advising on AI systems, evaluate:
Build vs buy: hosted APIs by default; 95% of AI features don't need custom models
Model routing: cheapest model that meets quality — saves 10-60x on cost
Fallback strategies: always have a degraded path — cached responses, rule-based fallback
Privacy: check DPA and data retention for each provider; VPC isolation for sensitive data
Compliance: EU AI Act risk levels (unacceptable, high-risk, limited, minimal)
Core Principles
RAG before fine-tuning — cheaper, more auditable, easier to update
Evaluate before shipping — golden set CI gates block quality regression
Instrument everything — cost, latency, and hallucination tracking from day one
Never trust LLM output for DB writes or external actions without validation
references/mlops-pipelines.md — ML pipeline architecture, orchestration tools (Kubeflow/Vertex/Prefect/ZenML), MLflow and W&B experiment tracking, Feast feature store, CI/CD for ML with automated evaluation gates
references/model-serving.md — vLLM/TGI/Triton/Ollama serving engines, A/B testing and canary deployment patterns, LoRA/QLoRA fine-tuning, production drift detection, monitoring tools (Langfuse/LangSmith/Arize/Helicone)
