10 — Cost, Latency, Reliability

Status: Outline. This module now has its full scaffold in place; fill the body pages during the scheduled prep week.

What is in this module

Notes

• Cost Architecture
• Latency Architecture
• Reliability Patterns
• Observability
• Production Readiness Review

Drills

• Estimate Tokens from Business Volume
• Defend a Latency Budget
• Blast Radius Conversation

Case Study

• BFSI Cost and Latency Model

Strong-Hire bar

• You can explain the module in customer language, not only implementation language.
• You can defend trade-offs, failure modes, evals, and governance choices under skeptical questioning.
• You can connect the module back to the running BFSI customer and the Apic Applied AI Architect role.