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NEW TO PRODUCTION INFERENCE?

Start with the fundamentals.

A guided path from your first request to operating a reliable inference system.

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UPCOMING EVENT

vLLM Inference Meetup, Mumbai

Oct 24, 2026 · IIT Bombay

Join us for Mumbai’s first-ever vLLM and llm-d AI Inference Meetup, where we explore the architecture, performance optimizations, and engineering behind scalable, high-performance AI inference.

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KNOWLEDGE FROM THE FIELD

Field Notes

Technical deep dives and lessons from real inference systems.

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Optimization

An FDE’s playbook for diagnosing TTFT delays

Most discussions about AI inference performance focus on model speed. In practice, however, users experience performance through a different metric: Time to…

InferenceOps Framework

Six operating dimensions. Fifteen practices. A shared way to reason about production inference.

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01

Select

Choose the right models, infrastructure, and tooling.

02

Serve

Deploy and scale production inference workloads.

03

Route

Direct requests across models and infrastructure.

04

Observe

Understand latency, quality, reliability, and cost.

05

Optimize

Improve throughput, GPU utilization, and efficiency.

06

Govern

Build secure, accountable, and reliable systems.

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