Patterns · Vol. 17

Pattern

Modeling the latency-cost-quality frontier

Make the latency-cost-quality trade-off explicit through modeling rather than implicit through engineering intuition, so deployment decisions about model selection, routing, and infrastructure reflect the actual frontier rather than assumed trade-offs.

Classification — Explicit modeling of the three-way trade-off among latency, cost, and quality for deployment decisions.

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