Production Evals & Guardrails: LLM-as-a-Judge Scale
Prerequisite: Familiarity with the concepts introduced in Part 9 — Agentic Observability Monitoring. Review it first if the terminology in this part is unfamiliar. Part 10 — Production Evals & CI/CD Guardrails: LLM-as-a-Judge at Scale In traditional software development, continuous integration (CI) relies on deterministic unit and integration tests. A function either returns the expected string or it fails the build. In GenAI and RAG engineering, responses are non-deterministic. A minor adjustment to a system prompt, a change in vector embedding models, or an update to chunking strategy can silently degrade response quality, introducing subtle hallucinations or dropping key context facts. ...