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MCP lets AI tools plug into your capabilities, but also exposes data and operations to every compatible client. This guide covers least-privilege tools, validation and injection defenses, remote authentication and rate limiting, local-vs.-remote trust boundaries, third-party supply-chain risk, and a prelaunch checklist.
LLM applications need SLIs and SLOs, but traditional Web targets do not transfer: latency varies widely, quality is hard to quantify, and cost is itself a metric. This article covers latency (p95/TTFT), availability (model API failures), quality (evaluation scores/bad-case rate), cost (tokens/request), alerting, and error budgets.
AI startups shouldn't pile on infrastructure early, but some foundations must exist from day one—otherwise everything collapses once traffic arrives. A pragmatic checklist: the model call layer (routing/caching/fallback), observability, evaluation, data (vector DB/memory), and security (rate limiting/moderation), with what to build first vs. defer.
Attack before launch, or users will afterward. LLM red teaming finds prompt injection, jailbreaks, privilege abuse, data exfiltration, harmful output, and denial of service. This article covers adversarial prompt sets, LLM-generated attacks, and turning findings into regression tests so you discover flaws before users do.
Production RAG almost always needs conditional retrieval: search only a department, time window, or product. Vector recall alone cannot filter precisely. This article explains metadata design for chunks, pgvector SQL and Qdrant payload filters, pre-filter performance benefits, and permission isolation.
You burned $50K in tokens in a month but can't say which feature or user did it — that's no cost attribution. Learn how to attribute AI cost via request tagging, token metering and aggregation, unit economics (per-user/per-feature cost), and anomaly detection, turning AI cost from an opaque ledger into something optimizable and accountable.
When RAG answers poorly, retrieval is usually at fault--but first determine whether the issue is missed recall or irrelevant retrieval. This article presents a systematic workflow for inspecting recall, similarity, reranking, and prompts, plus ways to diagnose bad chunking, embedding mismatches, and overly strict filters.