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Distributed State in Large-Scale LLM Orchestration

How we held sub-50ms consistency across regions for ephemeral model state — and why most teams reach for consensus protocols they do not need.

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Why Your LLM Eval Harness Is Quietly Lying to You

Offline eval scores that climb while production quality flatlines are the default failure mode of applied AI. Here is how the gap opens, and how to close it.

29 Apr 2026

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