AI production systems

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Monitoring a pipeline nobody is watching

Lesson 9 of 10 in AI production systems.

Observability vs. APM vs. Monitoring · IBM Technology
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Automated systems fail quietly. Nobody is watching at four in the morning, and the characteristic failure of a generative pipeline is output that is subtly worse than yesterday because a model was updated, with nothing crashing.

A machine in a dark room prints the same tree again and again along a paper roll, each one slightly paler and blurrier. A cord runs from the machine up the stairs to a bell next to a sleeping person's bed.
Nothing crashed; the tree just faded. The cord to the bell is what wakes someone.
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  1. Question 1, locked

    Which of these words means this? “Being able to tell what a system is doing from outside it.”

    • Prompt caching
    • Measurement
    • Observability
    • Threshold
  2. Question 2, locked

    Which of these words means this? “The record of one run, step by step, with timings and costs.”

    • Versioning
    • Timeout
    • Trace
    • Webhook
  3. Question 3, locked

    Which of these words means this? “Output getting worse without anything failing. The hardest fault to catch.”

    • Silent degradation
    • Trigger
    • API
    • Idempotent

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