LLM Inference Engineering Maps Modern Serving

Inference is becoming a core software-engineering discipline because latency, throughput, and GPU costs increasingly determine whether AI products work in production.

• –Bridges model concepts with practical serving systems and hardware fundamentals
• –Explains the optimization techniques behind higher throughput and lower memory use
• –Covers both hosted engines such as vLLM and SGLang and local formats such as GGUF
• –Gives application developers a useful path toward production-grade AI infrastructure skills
• –Best treated as a structured curriculum and reference library, not a turnkey inference platform