Treat Foundation Models Like Production Services—Apply SLOs, Observability, and Incident Playbooks
Deploying a foundation model without production-grade ops leads to silent failures and hallucinations. The article shows how to bring the same rigor used for microservices—continuous pre‑training, observability pipelines, SLOs, gradual rollouts, and on‑call response—into AI services, turning vague hand‑offs into reliable, debuggable systems.