The Impact of Inference: Availability
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.
Find out more in the blog, How AI inference changes application delivery: https://www.f5.com/company/blog/how-ai-inference-changes-application-delivery
Read the white paper Ken references, Passive Monitoring—Maintaining Performance and Health: https://cdn.studio.f5.com/files/k6fem79d/production/6f4d7a0298a24927ed03c3dc92de339c86e03ef5.pdf
Creators and Guests
Host
Joel Moses
Distinguished Engineer and VP, Strategic Engineer at F5, Joel has over 30 years of industry experience in cybersecurity and networking fields. He holds several US patents related to encryption technique.
Host
Lori MacVittie
Distinguished Engineer and Chief Evangelist at F5, Lori has more than 25 years of industry experience spanning application development, IT architecture, and network and systems' operation. She co-authored the CADD profile for ANSI NCITS 320-1998 and is a prolific author with books spanning security, cloud, and enterprise architecture.
Guest
Ken Salchow, DBA
As Director of Education Services at F5, Ken brings over 16 years of expertise in certification and digital education. His focus lies in transforming global learning operations, enhancing digital training experiences, and aligning strategic initiatives with corporate goals.
Producer
Tabitha R.R. Powell
Technical Thought Leadership Evangelist producing content that makes complex ideas clear and engaging.
