Production Evals & Guardrails: LLM-as-a-Judge Scale
Prerequisite: Familiarity with distributed tracing and observability metrics established in Part 9 — Agentic Observability: OpenTelemetry & Cost Monitoring. Answer-first: Manual spot-checking cannot prevent silent prompt regressions, context hallucination, or retrieval degradation in enterprise production releases. Implementing automated CI/CD quality gates powered by Ragas and multi-pass LLM-as-a-Judge arbitration evaluates the RAG Triad - Faithfulness, Context Precision, and Answer Relevance - blocking non-compliant model releases and maintaining 99.2% factual groundedness across all corporate environments. ...