Speculative Speculative Decoding: Eliminating the Last Sequential Bottleneck in LLM Inference

How speculating about speculation itself achieves up to 5x faster LLM inference by eliminating the draft model’s idle time during verification, and the three engineering challenges that make it work.

March 7, 2026 · 21 min

Why `vllm serve` Works on Day Zero (and What It Takes to Make It Fast)

A deep dive into vLLM’s tiered model integration — from the Transformers fallback that enables zero-day support to the native integration path that makes it fast.

February 14, 2026 · 20 min
Orchestra conductor coordinating musicians in a circular arrangement

Orchestrating Inference: How Kubernetes, Ray, and vLLM Coordinate Under the Hood

A deep dive into how Kubernetes, Ray, and vLLM coordinate to transform independent GPUs into a synchronized inference machine.

January 18, 2026 · 19 min
Iceberg visualization showing the hidden software stack behind LLM inference

The Hidden Software Stack Behind Fast LLM Inference

Beyond vLLM and PagedAttention: exploring NCCL, CUTLASS, Triton, and FlashInfer, the libraries that actually make LLM inference fast.

January 10, 2026 · 12 min

Speculative Decoding: When Guessing Right Makes for Faster Inference

How speculative decoding achieves 2-3× inference speedup without changing model outputs, and why GLM-4.7’s native multi-token prediction marks a paradigm shift.

December 23, 2025 · 20 min

Flash Attention: The Mathematical Tricks That Broke the Memory Wall

Flash Attention, a memory-efficient attention mechanism for transformers.

September 10, 2025 · 12 min

Advanced NVIDIA GPU Monitoring for LLM Inference: A Deep Dive into H100 Architecture and Performance Optimization

A deep dive into NVIDIA’s H100 architecture and the monitoring techniques required for production-grade LLM inference optimization.

August 23, 2025 · 31 min