In Production: Where the Meters Run

The domain’s production capstone: cost, latency, reliability, and security as the four meters every later domain reads — and where each one lives in the stack.

Content last verified 2026-09.

Lessons

1. The Four Meters
2. Managed API or Your Own GPUs — a First Look
3. Where Each Meter Lives in the Stack

Sources

• Kwon et al. (2023) — Efficient Memory Management for Large Language Model Serving with PagedAttention (vLLM)
• Pope et al. (2022) — Efficiently Scaling Transformer Inference
• Yu et al. (2022) — Orca: A Distributed Serving System for Transformer-Based Generative Models (OSDI ’22)
• OWASP Top 10 for Large Language Model Applications