Prefill-Decode Disaggregation in Practice: Taming Latency for Long-Context LLM Serving
Long contexts and agentic requests shift LLM inference bottlenecks from single-card throughput to tail-latency governance. This post dives into Prefill-Decode disaggregation, KV cache transfer, resource planning, and a pre-launch checklist to move LLM serving from 'working' to stable and scalable.