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KV Cache and Inference Optimization

The Infrastructure Layer That Determines Your Real LLM Costs

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This guide covers how attention works and why it matters for cost, the KV cache mechanism, prompt caching, prefill vs decode timing, batching strategies, quantization, and speculative decoding. You will learn to read a profiling trace and understand what is driving your inference costs.

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