AI Infrastructure Build vs. Buy
Managed LLM Gateway Providers Compared for Teams Skipping Proxy Ops
Managed gateways let teams skip infrastructure work while keeping routing control.
Céleste Beaumont-Jourdain
· 10 min read
Managed gateways let teams skip infrastructure work while keeping routing control.
Uniting engineering and finance on AI spending through shared real-time visibility.
Streaming LLM responses requires configuring timeouts across every layer in the request path.
Understanding which quota regime you're using prevents silent failures in production.
Catch model routing failures on real traffic before users encounter them.
Benchmarks matter less than your actual task, context window, and licensing needs.
Prepare detection and failover systems before the outage hits.
Teams are already dependent on single AI providers without realizing the full scope of the risk.