Disaggregated Prefill/Decode: The Architecture Quietly Rewiring How LLMs Get Served
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If you have used any large language model product in the last year, you have run into a piece of infrastructure most people never think about: the serving system that turns a prompt into a stream of tokens. For a long time, that system worked the same way regardless of scale. One GPU, or one small cluster of GPUs, would take your prompt, process it, and then generate the response token by token, all on the same hardware, in the same process. That approach is quietly breaking down. Context…
1Key Takeaways
- If you have used any large language model product in the last year, you have run into a piece of infrastructure most people never think about: the serving system that turns a prompt into a stream of tokens.
- For a long time, that system worked the same way regardless of scale.
- One GPU, or one small cluster of GPUs, would take your prompt, process it, and then generate the response token by token, all on the same hardware, in the same process.
- That approach is quietly breaking down.
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Coding AI shifts how fast software ships and how much human review each change needs. DEV — ML reports that if you have used any large language model product in the last year, you have run into a piece of infrastructure most people never think about: the serving system that turns a prompt into a stream of tokens.
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