Production operations
Operational fitness
Whether a system works reliably within real service constraints.
Definition
Operational fitness covers latency, availability, cost, throughput, recovery, observability and escalation alongside answer quality.
Why it matters
A highly accurate system can still be unsuitable if it is slow, fragile, unaffordable or difficult to control.
Related concepts
- Latency
The time taken for a system to produce a result or complete a task.
- Cost per task
The full variable cost of completing a defined unit of work.
- Availability
The proportion of time a service can successfully respond.
- Fallback
A safe alternative when the preferred AI path cannot continue.