Lesson 081: Latency and cache strategy
Focus
Bias toward observable metrics: latency, cost, escalation rate. Token Latency and cache strategy:81 keeps neighbouring lessons differentiable.
Key ideas
- Thread: Latency and cache strategy · drill v1 · spin
834088. - Habit: attach a trace_id to every completion you would paste into an ops dashboard.
- Guardrail: add one RACI bullet for prompt or index changes before tomorrow's standup.
Deep dive notebook
Synthetic drill artefacts
Logging contract
| Field | Retention |
|-------|-----------|
| trace_id | 25d |
| prompt_hash | policy-defined |
| completion_excerpt | 24h hot |
Mask tier `pii-v0` before persistence.
Practice
Practice Paste the worked template into an internal wiki stub and name owners. — 81 Bump 22.