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Debugging Techniques for Production AI

For engineers keeping AI systems running in production

Half-day workshopWorkshop
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Program Overview

What This Program Covers

Production AI systems fail in ways that traditional monitoring and debugging tools were never designed to catch. This program teaches engineers the specific observability patterns, debugging techniques, and incident response procedures needed to keep AI-powered production systems healthy and reliable.

What You'll Learn

  1. 1Design observability systems specifically for AI workloads
  2. 2Implement AI-specific metrics, logs, and traces
  3. 3Debug latency spikes and performance degradation in AI systems
  4. 4Handle AI vendor outages and fallback strategies
  5. 5Conduct post-mortems for AI system failures
  6. 6Build runbooks for common AI production issues
  7. 7Implement cost anomaly detection for AI workloads

Outline

Program Snapshot

Module 1 — AI Production Observability

  • ›Metrics that matter for AI systems
  • ›Logging AI inputs, outputs, and metadata
  • ›Distributed tracing for AI workflows
  • ›Hands-on: instrument a production AI system

Module 2 — Performance Debugging

  • ›Latency analysis for AI endpoints
  • ›Token consumption anomaly detection
  • ›Cache effectiveness and optimization
  • ›Hands-on: diagnose a performance regression

Module 3 — Incident Response for AI

  • ›AI-specific incident classification
  • ›Fallback and degraded mode strategies
  • ›Vendor outage response procedures
  • ›Hands-on: run an AI incident simulation

Module 4 — Cost and Quality Management

  • ›Cost anomaly detection and alerting
  • ›Quality drift detection in production
  • ›Runbook design for AI operations
  • ›Building an AI operations practice

Who This Is For

  • Site reliability engineers supporting AI
  • Platform engineers running AI workloads
  • Backend engineers on-call for AI systems
  • DevOps engineers adding AI to their stack

Prerequisites

  • Experience with production software operations
  • Basic monitoring and logging familiarity
  • Some exposure to AI APIs helpful

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Every bILTup program is fully customized to your team's tech stack, goals, and timeline. Tell us about your team and we'll design something built specifically for you.

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