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2 essays tagged with Latency.

August 14, 2026·14 min read·Expert

Prompt Engineering and LLM Latency: The 10-Day Field Report

A source-backed field report on the last ten days of prompt engineering and LLM latency: OpenAI Ultrafast and long-context Fast mode, vLLM and SGLang releases, new inference research, production best practices, and the roadmap ahead.

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August 14, 2026·16 min read·Expert

LLM Latency Engineering: TTFT, Caching, Routing, and the Road to Real-Time Agents

A production guide to LLM latency optimization across queueing, prefill, decode, output budgets, prompt caching, request topology, model and service-tier routing, speculative decoding, disaggregated serving, observability, and rollout.

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