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Inference Serving & Model-Routing Infrastructure
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Mach Eigen
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Module 1
The Inference Serving Stack
Serving Is a Scheduling Problem: Engines and Continuous Batching
· 3 min · narrated
The Key-Value Cache: Memory Reuse, Paging, and Prefix Sharing
· 3 min · narrated
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Module 2
Model Routing Across Models and Hardware Tiers
Routing Across Models: Cascades, Classifiers, and Quality-Cost Frontiers
· 3 min · narrated
Routing Across Hardware Tiers: Heterogeneous Fleets and Accelerator Classes
· 3 min · narrated
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Module 3
Token-Economics-Aware Scheduling
The Economics of a Token: Prefill, Decode, and Cost per Token
· 3 min · narrated
Scheduling Against Power and Price: SLO-Aware and Power-Aware Serving
· 3 min · narrated
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Module 4
Inference as the Dominant Load and Data-Center Design
Why Inference Overtakes Training as the Dominant Load
· 3 min · narrated
How Serving Infrastructure Shapes Data-Center Design and Utilization
· 3 min · narrated
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