Inference Platform Engineering

flowchart TD
  N0["A platform separates what changes slowly from what happens per request<br/><b>01</b>"]
  N1["It needs to know what models exist<br/><b>02</b>"]
  N2["And where to run them, on scarce hardware<br/><b>03, 04</b>"]
  N3["Shared fairly between teams<br/><b>05</b>"]
  N4["With requests routed intelligently<br/><b>06, 07</b>"]
  N5["Through a front door that handles everything common<br/><b>08</b>"]
  N6["With fallbacks when the primary path fails or is too expensive<br/><b>09</b>"]
  N7["On a cluster whose capacity is actively managed<br/><b>10</b>"]
  N8["Built incrementally, in the right order<br/><b>11</b>"]
  N0 --> N1 --> N2 --> N3 --> N4 --> N5 --> N6 --> N7 --> N8

  class N0,N1 neutral
  class N2,N3 io
  class N4,N5 queue
  class N6,N7 compute
  class N8 memory