Multi-cloud AI strategies prevent vendor lock-in and optimize costs. After implementing multi-cloud for 20+ AI projects, I’ve learned what works. Here’s the complete guide to multi-cloud AI strategies. Figure 1: Multi-Cloud AI Architecture Why Multi-Cloud for AI Multi-cloud strategies offer significant advantages: Vendor independence: Avoid lock-in to single cloud provider Cost optimization: Use best pricing […]
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After two decades of building data systems, I’ve watched Natural Language Processing evolve from a research curiosity into an indispensable tool for extracting value from the vast ocean of unstructured text that enterprises generate daily. The convergence of transformer architectures, cloud-scale computing, and mature NLP libraries has fundamentally changed how we approach data analytics, enabling […]
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Introduction: Observability is essential for production LLM applications—you need visibility into latency, token usage, costs, error rates, and output quality. Unlike traditional applications where you can rely on status codes and response times, LLM applications require tracking prompt versions, model behavior, and semantic quality metrics. This guide covers practical observability: distributed tracing for multi-step LLM […]
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Introduction: Evaluating LLM outputs is fundamentally different from traditional ML evaluation. There’s no single ground truth for creative tasks, quality is subjective, and outputs vary with each generation. Yet rigorous evaluation is essential for production systems—you need to know if your prompts are working, if model changes improve quality, and if your system meets user […]
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