What Is LLM-as-a-Judge, Really? A Field Guide to the State of the Art in 2026
I wanted to actually understand LLM-as-a-judge instead of nodding along the way I used to with CAP theorem before I’d actually read the paper. So I built a p...
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Software Layers Before Inference At Scale
The LLM Serving Stack You Actually Need: From NGINX to llm-d to GPU
I Built a Five-Agent SRE War Room and Grafana Watched Every Token
Grafana AI Observability launched on April 21. I spent a few days building a five-agent incident response system to put it through its paces. Here’s what act...
P/D Disaggregation on a Single GPU — What the Architecture Actually Requires
I deployed llm-d’s P/D disaggregation guide — separate prefill and decode pods, NIXL sidecar, the full architecture. The pods ran. The NIXL KV transfers show...
llm-d in Action — EPP Prefix Cache Routing and What It Actually Means
The stack is deployed. Now let’s see what it actually does. EPP prefix cache routing, 81.1% KV cache hit rate, TTFT at 15ms p50, and what those numbers mean ...
Deploying llm-d on a Cloud GPU — The 10 Things Nobody Tells You
I deployed llm-d on a Lambda Labs GH200. Nothing worked first try. Here is the honest account of what broke, why, and how to fix it — so you don’t spend your...
Treating the M4 Mac Mini Like a Production Inference Server (It Tried)
I treated an M4 Mac Mini as a production-like inference environment — wired up Prometheus, Grafana, a kind cluster with nginx, and ran real load tests. Here’...
What Is LLM Inference, Really? A Deep Technical Walkthrough
An Engineer’s annotated tour through what actually happens when you hit send — from bytes to tokens to embeddings to attention to the word your model finally...
Schema Travels Architecture
Translating SQL to NoSQL: Architecture Deep-Dive
Building a Privacy-Aware LLM Gateway: Benchmarking Results
Part 2 of 2: Empirical evaluation of classification accuracy, routing performance, and cost attribution — with honest analysis of failure modes
Building a Privacy-Aware LLM Gateway: Architecture Deep-Dive
Part 1 of 2: Design decisions, trade-offs, and lessons from building inference-sentinel