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Build a learning habit around questions, source evidence and practical tests. Explain a real example without claiming work you did not perform.

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Build a learning habit around questions, source evidence and practical tests. Explain a real example without claiming work you did not perform.

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Foundational

🧮 Open Weights & Serving Engines

Serving Benchmarks That Do Not LieDesign reproducible serving experiments with realistic arrivals, cache state and failure accounting. Interpret latency-qualified throughput and conditional per-rank bounds without turning optimistic kernel estimates into production capacity.

Foundational

🖧 Hardware & Cluster Build-Out

Burn-In and Acceptance TestingAcceptance testing checks that a new cluster meets agreed performance and reliability criteria. Sustained tests and comparisons between nodes help reveal defects before production.

Advanced

🚀 Inference & Serving🔒 Premium

The Serving Optimization WaterfallTune an LLM deployment one change at a time against one fixed workload, in an order that follows the binding constraint. A measured run went from 789 to 6,568 output tokens per second, and the two biggest wins were not the knobs people usually reach for first.

Foundational

🧭 Ownership & Judgment

Talking About Cost and Capacity with LeadershipA capacity discussion should connect technical measurements to cost, delivery dates and risk. Present the assumptions, feasible options and a recommendation, and distinguish committed capacity from actual consumption under the relevant contract.

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Look for relevant source selection, version and workload awareness, honest experimental limits and a clear connection to decisions.

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