Reserve Before Dispatch: Budgets That Fire Before Inference
Why post-hoc spend alerts fail, and how pre-dispatch reservation changes the budget conversation
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Why post-hoc spend alerts fail, and how pre-dispatch reservation changes the budget conversation
Guardrails Belong in the Request Path, Not in a Review Queue Most LLM safety tooling fails quietly. Not because the checks are weak, but because of where they run: in one service but not its rewrite,
Aggregator, self-hosted, or managed — three market shapes for the same six jobs. Which one fits your team's compliance needs, traffic, and willingness to operate infrastructure.
How to switch LLM gateways without downtime — run both in parallel, verify under real traffic, then cut over.
Per-Team Budgets: The Gateway Feature That Kills the Spreadsheet Every team running shared LLM infrastructure eventually builds the same spreadsheet: per-team spend, per-key usage, who's about to blow
Ask a room of engineers what an LLM gateway is for and most will say "one API key for every model." That's the brochure answer. The real product is what happens between your request and the model: whi