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Operate AI like production: serving, GPUs, latency, capacity, routing and reliability.
Queue Time
Queue time is how long a request waits before model execution begins.
Think of it like
Think of Queue Time 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 Queue Time to keep cost and latency under control.
SRE lens
A high TTFT may actually be queue delay rather than slow generation.
Remember thisQueue time is how long a request waits before model execution begins.