Inference Routing Is Becoming an Infrastructure Placement Problem
Inference routing is evolving into a complex infrastructure placement challenge as enterprise environments diversify. The traditional model of routing requests to a single cluster is no longer sufficient due to the variety of execution environments available. A new architectural layer, termed the Inference Execution Plane, is necessary to manage these routing and placement decisions effectively.
- ▪Inference routing has shifted from a simple model to a complex infrastructure placement problem due to diverse execution environments.
- ▪The API gateway, originally designed for homogeneous nodes, is inadequate for managing the complexities of multiple substrate types.
- ▪The Inference Execution Plane is proposed as a new architectural function to govern where inference workloads execute and under what constraints.
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