Serving

Speculative decoding promises faster tokens: when does it deliver?

At what point does self-hosting on vLLM beat a managed LLM API?

Which phase governs the wall clock time of a long LLM generation?

What problem does PagedAttention (vLLM) solve for the KV cache, and what OS idea does it borrow?

Explain how continuous batching keeps GPUs busy that static batching leaves idle

Memory creeps up for hours then OOMs at 3am: diagnose the KV-cache leak pattern

Throughput, for an LLM serving system: give the working definition

Define a stop sequence in an LLM API call

Server-Sent Events streaming: define it and explain why chat APIs default to it

TPM and RPM each throttle a different axis, which one caps which?

Give the shape of an OpenAI compatible chat completions request and response.

Which components dominate cold start latency when a serving replica spins up?

Trace how one slow request stalls every co-batched generation step.

Why might a LoRA that passes every eval check then garble one in five prod requests?

Describe how continuous batching interacts with the KV cache

What problem does chunked prefill solve in production LLM serving?

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How does the serving stack decide when to stop generation and what bugs come from mis-set stop sequences?