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Your cluster is going into a colocation facility rather than your own building. What changes?

Define who owns each facility and hardware action, model restoration time, and verify power, cooling, telemetry and growth commitments before deployment.

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Define who owns each facility and hardware action, model restoration time, and verify power, cooling, telemetry and growth commitments before deployment.

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🖧 Hardware & Cluster Build-Out

Colocation, Power Contracts and Site SelectionA suitable site must deliver the required rack power, cooling and service capacity. Contract terms and facility lead times shape both cost and deployment dates.

🧮 Open Weights & Serving Engines

Model Onboarding: From Hugging Face to ProductionTurn a model release into a reproducible service: pin the complete artifact, confirm the exact engine path, budget transfer and runtime memory, validate request and response behavior, then benchmark and canary against explicit acceptance criteria.

🩺 Fleet Reliability & Observability

Alert Design and On-Call LoadUseful alerts identify a condition that needs a timely response. Connect pages to user impact or imminent risk, and reduce duplicate noise without hiding failures.

🗂️ Scheduling & Orchestration

Node Lifecycle: Drain, Upgrade and ReturnFleet maintenance moves nodes through drain, repair and validation before returning them to service. Deadlines and concurrency limits keep that work within the available capacity.

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FEDITOR'S NOTE

Look for precise service boundaries, restoration rather than acknowledgement, and an exercised repair handoff.

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