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One Door to the Models, Part 8: Orchestration on Top of the Gateway

An orchestration framework that retries and reroutes is competing with the gateway. Part 8 keeps the framework thin and puts tools under the same identity.

Jul 26, 2026 7 min

One Door to the Models, Part 6: Semantic Caching and Its Failure Modes

A semantic cache is a correctness surface, not just a cost lever. Part 6 tunes the threshold, isolates tenants, and handles the day the cache is gone.

Jul 24, 2026 8 min

One Door to the Models, Part 5: Identity, Quota, and Chargeback

You get five custom metric dimensions, and time series multiply. Part 5 builds tenant identity, quota, and a chargeback model that survives cardinality.

Jul 23, 2026 9 min

One Door to the Models, Part 3: The Provider Abstraction and Streaming

Set stream to true and token counting becomes estimation. Open a WebSocket and load balancing stops existing. Part 3 maps guarantees to transports.

Jul 21, 2026 11 min

One Door to the Models, Part 2: Terraform, Bicep, or ARM

Bicep has no state file and cannot touch Entra ID. Part 2 picks the IaC layer for the gateway, and finds the model-version default that upgrades production.

Jul 20, 2026 11 min

One Door to the Models, Part 1: The Case for a Central LLM Gateway

A company runs five GenAI apps and cannot say what any of them cost. Part 1: the scenario, build versus buy on Azure, and the gateway this series builds.

Jul 19, 2026 11 min