Azure OpenAI in production: tokens, throughput, and high availability
Eleventh post in the series. In the previous one, we built the self-service AI platform with multi-tenancy and scheduling. This time it’s the service everybody wants to consume: Azure OpenAI, and how to run it without getting slapped by 429s. The 429 that changed everything Your team launched an internal GPT-4o chatbot on Monday. Day 1 was demos for leadership and Slack praise. Day 3 brought “the bot is slow.” Day 5 brought HTTP 429 on 30% of requests. You open Azure Monitor and find the 80K TPM ceiling waiting for you. ...