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Design multi-region failover for an LLM product, including the day your model provider goes down.

Two questions disguised as one: classic multi-region (where the hard part is data, not compute) and dependency failover (where the hard part is that your fallback model gives different answers). Degraded modes are designed, not improvised.

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Two questions disguised as one: classic multi-region (where the hard part is data, not compute) and dependency failover (where the hard part is that your fallback model gives different answers). Degraded modes are designed, not improvised.

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