At that point, backpressure and load shedding are the only things that retain a system that can still operate. If you have ever been in a Starbucks overwhelmed by mobile orders, you know the feeling.

Python -O won’t magically make every script faster, but in the right workloads it’s a free win—here’s how to test it safely.

Use the vitals package with ellmer to evaluate and compare the accuracy of LLMs, including writing evals to test local models.