Production Architecture

Production Architecture

AdvancedTopic6 lessons~5h 25m

Lessons, in order

01 Well-Architected AIA well-architected review is a structured way to find the weaknesses in a design before production finds them. Each of the three large cloud providers publishes a framework built on the same … Advanced 55 min 02 Evaluation as the ContractAn evaluation — an "eval" — is a set of test cases with known good outcomes, plus a way of scoring the system against them. It turns "the demo looked good" into "it is right on 96% of 412 … Advanced 55 min 03 PoC to ProductionA proof of concept (PoC) shows that something can work once, on chosen examples, for a friendly audience. Production means it works every day, on whatever arrives, for people who did not ask … Advanced 50 min 04 Capacity, Quotas and ResilienceWith a hosted model you do not run out of servers. You run out of quota: the number of tokens and requests per minute the provider lets your account send. When you exceed it, requests are … Advanced 55 min 05 Security, Privacy and ResidencySecurity review is where AI projects wait longest, and the wait is usually caused by a design that cannot answer three questions. Where does the data go? — which provider, which region, kept … Advanced 55 min 06 Governance and RegulationAI governance is how an organisation decides which AI systems may exist, under what conditions, and who answers for them. It has four working parts: an inventory of every AI system, a risk … Advanced 55 min

About this topic

A design that demos well is not a design that survives production. This topic covers what stands between the two: a structured review, an evaluation gate, a staged path to launch, capacity that holds at peak, security and privacy that pass review, and the regulation that now applies.

#	Lesson	The question it answers
01	Well-Architected AI	How do I review an AI design systematically, pillar by pillar?
02	Evaluation as the Contract	How do we prove it works, before launch and after every change?
03	PoC to Production	Why do pilots stall, and what are the stages and gates that get one through?
04	Capacity, Quotas and Resilience	Will it hold at peak, and what happens when the provider does not?
05	Security, Privacy and Residency	Where does the data go, who can act, and what will security ask me?
06	Governance and Regulation	Which rules apply, what must be documented, and who is accountable?

These lessons tell an architect what to require and how to check it. How each control is built is covered in AI System Design and AI Security Engineering.