LLM Serverless GPU Cold Start in Production: Balancing Cost and TTFT with Weight Prefetching, Warm Pools, and Scale-to-Zero
A practical guide to tackling LLM Serverless GPU cold starts. Learn how to use weight prefetching, image warming, warm pools, scale-to-zero, TTFT monitoring, and deployment gates to achieve a controlled, fine-grained balance between GPU costs and first-token latency.