serving-in-production

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SERVING IN PRODUCTION · 04ONE TOKEN · SIX EXPERTS · 64 GPUSEP64DISPATCH AND COMBINE

Expert Parallelism, and What DeepEP Does for It

Why serving a big MoE model means spreading its experts over many GPUs, what dispatch and combine cost, and how DeepEP and its V2 redesign make it fast.

SERVING IN PRODUCTION · 02QUIET · FIRST TOKEN, THEN A STEADY STREAMLOADED · LONGER WAIT, LONGER GAPSTHROUGHPUT UP, GOODPUT DOWN

TTFT, ITL, Goodput: Measuring What Users Feel

What TTFT, TPOT, ITL, end-to-end latency, and goodput each measure, how the tools compute them, and why peak throughput is the wrong target.

SERVING IN PRODUCTION · 03SAME BENCHMARK,THREE RUNSMEDIAN TTFT 819 · 1,132 · 894 MS

Benchmark an Inference Server Without Lying to Yourself

Common load-test mistakes made on purpose next to the correct run, on one vLLM server, so each rule comes with how far it moves the numbers.