Production-Engineering

Abstract visualization of a GPU pipeline routing inference requests across multiple LLM instances.

Serving LLMs in Production: A Practical Guide to Latency, Throughput, and Cost

A production-focused walkthrough of how to serve large language models efficiently, covering batching strategies, quantization, KV cache management, and the observability you actually need.

Binary digits flowing into a neural network diagram representing reduced precision inference.

Quantization in Production: Trading Precision for Scale

Quantization is the single highest-leverage optimization for LLM and vision inference at scale. This post covers the math, the formats, the failure modes, and the patterns shipping teams use to roll out quantized models safely.

Diagram showing token positions feeding a transformer decoder with KV cache blocks reused across steps.

KV Caching in Production: How Transformers Trade Memory for Latency

A practitioner’s guide to KV caching: what gets cached, why decode steps are cheap, and how production systems like vLLM and TensorRT-LLM squeeze out more throughput.

Diagram of a prefix tree being shared across concurrent LLM requests.

SGLang in Production: How Structured Generation Makes LLM Serving Actually Fast

SGLang is a serving stack co-designed around how real LLM programs actually look — structured prompts, tool calls, and multi-turn agents. We dig into RadixAttention, the DSL, and what changes when you deploy it next to vLLM.

Architecting Retrieval-Augmented Generation Systems: A Deep Dive into Production Pipelines

How to design Retrieval-Augmented Generation pipelines that hold up in production — covering indexing, hybrid retrieval, reranking, evaluation harnesses, and the operational realities of freshness, latency, and cost.