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Operate AI like production: serving, GPUs, latency, capacity, routing and reliability.
Backpressure
Backpressure slows or rejects incoming work when downstream capacity is saturated.
Think of it like
Think of Backpressure like familiar infrastructure capacity and traffic engineering, except the scarce resources are often tokens, GPU memory and model latency.
Real life
High-scale AI services depend on Backpressure to keep cost and latency under control.
SRE lens
Protect GPUs and vector stores instead of allowing unlimited queues.
Remember thisBackpressure slows or rejects incoming work when downstream capacity is saturated.