From Demo to Production: An LLM Systems Working Session
Ehsan Gazar
Principal Engineer shipping LLM systems
Your demo wowed the room. Production is a different job.
You can wire up an LLM and demo something that wows the room. Then it meets production and everything you weren't taught shows up at once: cost, latency, confident-wrong output, no evals, no traces. In this 3-hour working session you bring your real or planned LLM/agent feature, map its path to production with a Principal Engineer, and leave with a one-page production-readiness plan.
What you’ll learn
Walk in with a demo, walk out knowing exactly what it takes to put it in production, and a written plan to get there.
Decide what to hand the model vs keep in deterministic code.
A per-request cost and latency ceiling, and how to design to it.
The likeliest ways it breaks, plus the guardrails that contain them.
How you'll know it works before users do, and trace what it did.
Workshop agenda
Frame your system
Frame the system: draw the code-vs-model boundary for your feature and name the one job it must do reliably.
Set a cost and latency budget
Set a budget: a per-request cost and latency ceiling, and the design choices that keep you under it.
Map your top failure modes
Map failure: your top 3 failure modes and the guardrails, retries, and fallbacks that contain them.
Stand up evals and tracing
Start evals and tracing: the smallest harness that tells you quality moved before your users do.
Write your production-readiness plan
Leave with a one-page production-readiness plan and a 30-day next-steps checklist.
Learn directly from Ehsan
Ehsan Gazar
Principal Engineer, 500+ mentees, 16 years in production
Who this workshop is for
An engineer suddenly asked to ship an LLM feature, who can build a demo but hasn't taken one to production.
A senior or staff engineer who owns an AI system and wants rigor on cost, failure modes, and evals before it ships.
A tech lead, founding engineer, or EM accountable for an AI feature's cost and reliability, who needs a clear framework to pressure-test.
What's included
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Learn directly from Ehsan Gazar in a real-time, interactive format.
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