Your service now calls a model API on the critical path. How do your SLOs change?

You have added a dependency with a latency distribution an order of magnitude wider than anything else in your stack, whose failure mode is a plausible wrong answer rather than an error.

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You have added a dependency with a latency distribution an order of magnitude wider than anything else in your stack, whose failure mode is a plausible wrong answer rather than an error.

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