Pop Goes the Stack | The Impact of Inference: Availability | AI

Описание: What does "availability" mean in a world of #AI inferencing and ever-shifting workloads? It’s no longer just about servers responding or apps being online—availability now hinges on response quality, utility, and even user perception. A fast system that delivers irrelevant or wrong answers? That’s simply unavailable to its users.

In this episode of Pop Goes the Stack, #F5's Lori MacVittie, Joel Moses, and special guest Ken Salchow explore how AI systems are changing the availability game. From the historical binary days of “up or down” to today’s nuanced measures of responsiveness and correctness, they dive into the challenges of keeping apps fast, reliable, and meaningful.

Listen in to learn how AI inferencing workloads redefine availability metrics, why availability now requires response quality and utility, and whether or not "emotionally available" AI (yes, really) might be the future.

Chapters:
00:00 Welcome to Pop Goes the Stack
00:26 Impact of inference series: Availability
01:44 Early days: Binary availability
03:02 Does AI change availability's definition or how we measure it?
04:36 When "available" doesn’t mean "useful"
06:07 Redefining availability metrics
08:30 Business and liability considerations
10:50 Evolving challenges: Agentic AI and client-side considerations
13:54 Synthetic transactions: Old lessons for AI
17:14 Modern availability requirements
19:04 Key takeaways: Availability lessons for enterprises

Find out more in the blog How AI inference changes application delivery: https://go.f5.net/amurk37v

Read the white paper Ken references, Passive Monitoring—Maintaining Performance and Health: https://go.f5.net/e1mpj2gb

Learn how you can stay ahead of the curve and keep your stack whole with additional insights on app security, multicloud, AI, and emerging tech: https://go.f5.net/pcpxuhc3

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