PLATFORMS AND MANAGED SERVICES

CHECK YOUR UNDERSTANDING • What does a hosted agent platform provide? ◦ Answer: A ready-made runtime, often with sandboxing, deployment, and scaling, so teams can focus on agent logic. • Why should you mask data before sending traces to a third party? ◦ Answer: Traces often contain customer text and personal information that should not leave your control. • Name three jobs a model gateway can do. ◦ Answer: Any three of routing, caching, metering, failover, rate limiting, and central security control. • Why can a semantic cache be risky? ◦ Answer: It may return a stored answer to a similar but different question, so the answer does not quite fit. • Give one reason a company might be forced to build rather than buy. ◦ Answer: Data residency or privacy rules that forbid sending data to an outside vendor.