10What service level objectives would you promise researchers on a training platform, and how would you measure each?▼mediumNewGoogleMetaOpenAI4 repliesunlockedAvailability is the wrong promise for a platform whose jobs run for weeks. Four objectives that a researcher can actually plan against, how each is measured from data you already collect, the error budget that makes them enforceable, and the one number that should never be an objective.Open full answer →
25Trace one request through an inference platform. What are the spans, what does each cost, and where does latency actually hide?▼mediumNewOpenAIBaseten4 replies◆ premiumSeven spans from arrival to the last token, with realistic durations for each. The three places latency hides that a naive trace misses entirely, why the decode phase is one span and not four hundred, and the attribute that explains most tail latency in a single field.Open full answer →
