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5 Days of AI Architecture Patterns

The building blocks of a production AI system: the model gateway, choosing the right pattern, control and data planes, approvals and tenant boundaries, and a reference architecture.
10 min in total
  1. 01

    Part 1 · Explainer · 2 min read

    Every model call should go through something you own

    Routing, budgets, fallbacks and policy need one place to live. Scattered SDK calls give you none of them.

    On the map: LLM Gateway, Model
  2. 02

    Part 2 · Comparison · 2 min read

    Most agents are workflows wearing a costume

    Chatbot, workflow, agent, RAG. Pick the wrong one and you spend a quarter debugging autonomy nobody asked for.

    On the map: Agent
  3. 03

    Part 3 · Explainer · 2 min read

    You are already building a control plane, badly

    Policy, memory, evals and rollout get rebuilt inside every feature until someone names the layer they belong to.

    On the map: API Gateway, LLM Gateway
  4. 04

    Part 4 · Explainer · 2 min read

    An approve button is not human oversight

    Approvals, events and tenant boundaries are architecture. Bolt them on as UI and they become theatre.

    On the map: Human review, Enterprise APIs
  5. 05

    Part 5 · Article · 2 min read

    The architecture review that happens before launch, not after the incident

    Quality, safety, cost, latency, resilience and operations have to be visible on one diagram, at the same time.

    On the map: Agent