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Production AI architecture
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Moving from prototype to users: auth, logging, retrieval indexes, guardrails, canaries, and on-call ownership.
#When to use
Moving from prototype to users: auth, logging, retrieval indexes, guardrails, canaries, and on-call ownership.
#When not to
Weekend experiments. Architecture without product metrics becomes ceremony.
#Building blocks
1. Client / API gateway
2. Orchestration (prompt + tools + RAG)
3. Model serving
4. Data stores (vector + operational)
5. Eval, monitoring, and rollback
#Learn next
- Lesson: `production-ai-architecture`
- Related: RAG, model serving