Design an LLM Serving Platform

Advanced · 26 min read · High-Level Design, ML & AI Systems

Prefill and decode, KV cache arithmetic, continuous batching, paged memory and GPU capacity.

This is an Advanced lesson, part of Premium. What it covers:

• 1. Clarify the problem
• 2. How generation works, and why it's expensive
• 3. Capacity estimation
• 4. High-level design
• 5. Deep dives
• 6. Failure modes
• 7. Trade-offs summary
• 8. What interviewers look for
• Interview questions
• Practice
• Further reading

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