Local AI Needs Data-Plane Health Checks
My local AI mesh said the peer was online while every inference packet was getting dropped by a VPN killswitch. The fix was not another heartbeat. It was a real data-plane probe.
Rob··10 min read
Field notes for deploy-safety teams.
Practical writing on deploy risk, runbooks, incident response, dependency changes, and the habits that keep small engineering teams out of avoidable fire drills.
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Lean engineering teams
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Deploys, incidents, runbooks
Bias
Useful over theoretical