Practical, vendor-neutral guides on running large language models in production.https://llmops.si/enhttps://llmops.si/articles/how-to-build-your-first-eval-dataset/https://llmops.si/articles/how-to-build-your-first-eval-dataset/A practical, step-by-step guide to building an LLM eval dataset from real traffic - what a row looks like, how to score it, how many cases you need, and how to wire it into CI.Sat, 20 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTevaluationhow-toevalshttps://llmops.si/articles/what-to-log-in-an-llm-trace/https://llmops.si/articles/what-to-log-in-an-llm-trace/A field-by-field guide to what belongs in a production LLM trace - request IDs, prompt versions, retrieval, tokens, latency, cost and outcome - plus what to redact.Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTobservabilitytracinghow-tohttps://llmops.si/articles/how-to-calculate-hallucination-rate/https://llmops.si/articles/how-to-calculate-hallucination-rate/A practical method for measuring LLM hallucination (faithfulness) rate in production - how to define it, sample it, judge it, and track it over time.Thu, 18 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTevaluationhallucinationhow-tohttps://llmops.si/articles/prompt-versioning-with-github/https://llmops.si/articles/prompt-versioning-with-github/A concrete workflow for versioning LLM prompts in GitHub - file layout, pull-request review, eval gating in CI, and one-step rollback - without buying a dedicated tool.Wed, 17 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTprompt managementhow-toci-cdhttps://llmops.si/articles/rag-freshness-monitoring-checklist/https://llmops.si/articles/rag-freshness-monitoring-checklist/A focused checklist for keeping a RAG index fresh in production - detecting stale content, missing documents, embedding drift and re-index failures before users do.Tue, 16 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTragmonitoringchecklisthttps://llmops.si/articles/llm-incident-response-template/https://llmops.si/articles/llm-incident-response-template/A ready-to-adapt incident response template for LLM applications - severity levels, the first 15 minutes, mitigation levers unique to LLMs, and a post-mortem structure.Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTgovernanceincident-responsetemplatehttps://llmops.si/articles/choosing-langfuse-langsmith-braintrust-helicone/https://llmops.si/articles/choosing-langfuse-langsmith-braintrust-helicone/A decision framework for picking an LLM observability and evals platform - how Langfuse, LangSmith, Braintrust and Helicone differ, and which fits your team.Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTobservabilityevalstoolscomparisonhttps://llmops.si/articles/cto-questions-before-approving-llm-launch/https://llmops.si/articles/cto-questions-before-approving-llm-launch/The questions a technical leader should ask before signing off on shipping an LLM feature to production - covering evals, observability, cost, security, rollback and governance.Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTgovernanceleadershipchecklisthttps://llmops.si/articles/llm-governance-audit-trails-and-human-review/https://llmops.si/articles/llm-governance-audit-trails-and-human-review/A practical guide to governing LLM applications - audit trails, human-in-the-loop approval gates, explainability and reproducibility, and data retention you could show an auditor.Mon, 08 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTgovernancecomplianceaudithttps://llmops.si/articles/llm-deployment-ci-cd-staging-rollback/https://llmops.si/articles/llm-deployment-ci-cd-staging-rollback/How to ship LLM changes safely - CI with eval gates, a staging mirror, progressive rollout, config-driven rollback and provider fallback. The deployment layer of the LLMOps stack.Mon, 08 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTdeploymentci-cdrollbackhttps://llmops.si/articles/what-is-llmops/https://llmops.si/articles/what-is-llmops/LLMOps is the discipline of deploying, monitoring and improving large language model applications after the prototype works. A practical guide to what it covers, why it matters, and where to start.Fri, 05 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTfundamentalsdefinitionhttps://llmops.si/articles/llmops-vs-mlops/https://llmops.si/articles/llmops-vs-mlops/LLMOps builds on MLOps but adds prompts-as-code, non-determinism, LLM-judged evaluation, prompt-injection security and live token budgets. A practical guide to what actually changes - and what carries over.Thu, 04 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTfundamentalsmlopshttps://llmops.si/articles/llmops-stack-8-layers-of-production-llm-systems/https://llmops.si/articles/llmops-stack-8-layers-of-production-llm-systems/Prompt management, evaluation, observability, cost control, RAG operations, security, governance and deployment - a deep dive into the eight layers between an LLM prototype and production, with failure modes and a checklist for each.Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTstackarchitecturehttps://llmops.si/articles/llm-observability-what-to-monitor-in-production/https://llmops.si/articles/llm-observability-what-to-monitor-in-production/A production guide to LLM observability - the signals that matter, how to instrument with OpenTelemetry or Langfuse, what breaks without it, and a minimal-vs-mature path.Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTobservabilitymonitoringtracinghttps://llmops.si/articles/llm-evaluation-testing-prompts-rag-agents/https://llmops.si/articles/llm-evaluation-testing-prompts-rag-agents/A production-grade guide to LLM evaluation - what breaks without it, what to measure, how to write an LLM-as-judge and an eval runner, and how to gate releases the way you gate code on tests.Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTevaluationtestingevalshttps://llmops.si/articles/prompt-versioning-treat-prompts-like-code/https://llmops.si/articles/prompt-versioning-treat-prompts-like-code/A one-line prompt edit can move behaviour as much as a model swap. A production guide to treating prompts as versioned artifacts - change-tested, attributable and rollbackable in one step.Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTpromptsversioningprompt-managementhttps://llmops.si/articles/ragops-how-to-monitor-retrieval-quality/https://llmops.si/articles/ragops-how-to-monitor-retrieval-quality/Most "the model is wrong" bugs are retrieval bugs. A production guide to measuring retrieval quality, tuning chunking and embeddings, keeping the index fresh, and failing safe when nothing matches.Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTragretrievalembeddingshttps://llmops.si/articles/llm-cost-control-tokens-caching-model-routing/https://llmops.si/articles/llm-cost-control-tokens-caching-model-routing/Token spend compounds quietly until a finance review forces a panic. A production guide to unit economics, caching, model routing, right-sizing and budget alerts - before the bill, not after.Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTcostcachingroutinghttps://llmops.si/articles/llm-security-prompt-injection-data-leakage-guardrails/https://llmops.si/articles/llm-security-prompt-injection-data-leakage-guardrails/An LLM with tools and data access is an attack surface. A practical guide to prompt injection, data leakage and excessive agency - with guardrail patterns and the controls that contain them.Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTsecurityguardrailsprompt-injectionhttps://llmops.si/articles/llmops-checklist-from-prototype-to-production/https://llmops.si/articles/llmops-checklist-from-prototype-to-production/The narrative companion to the production-readiness checklist - the two questions that separate a demo from a system, walked across all eight layers of the LLMOps stack.Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTchecklistproduction