Opening Night: Launching a Fine‑Tuned LLM to Production

Tue, 30 Dec 2025 20:53:57 +0000

Your fine‑tuned model is ready. Evals look good. Now you need to actually deploy it.

This is the part most guides skip: how do you take a checkpoint and turn it into a service that real users can hit? What infrastructure decisions matter? What boundaries do you set? What happens when the GPU runs out of memory on New Year’s Eve?

Think of it like opening a restaurant. Your recipes work great in the test kitchen. But opening night means: multiple orders arriving simultaneously, ingredients running low, equipment breaking, customers ordering things you never tested together, and kitchen staff who’ve never worked a real dinner rush.

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Opening Night: Launching a Fine‑Tuned LLM to Production