Vocabulary · Volume 1 and Volume 2

Spillover

Sending requests that exceed provisioned capacity to shared pay-as-you-go capacity, billed at that rate. It supports reserving the steady base and buying the peak on a shared tier.

The definition appears in the Volume 1 glossary and Volume 2 glossary. This page collects where the book uses the term and where the blog takes it up.

Discussed in the book

Chapters where “Spillover” is discussed at length, ranked by how directly each section treats it.

Volume I, Chapter 7: AI Services and Token Capacity
Sections: Summary of the chapter
Volume II, Chapter 21: Multiple Markets
Sections: One register, not a private law firm · Which models may be consumed where

Ask the book about spillover

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