THE HANDS-ON PLAYGROUND FOR INFERENCE ENGINEERING
Learn the stack.
Measure what happens.
Build intuition, design controlled experiments, and validate them on connected infrastructure. P99 does not invent benchmark results.
01LEARNBuild the mental model
02DESIGNChange one variable
03MEASUREUse a real runtime
04COMPAREInspect the trace
ILLUSTRATIVE INCIDENTNOT A BENCHMARK
SYSTEM QUESTION?Which change would you test?
MEASURED TRACE GOES HERE
REQUESTS→SCHEDULER→GPU→TOKENS
ENVIRONMENTYOUR GPUlocal or cloud
RESULT POLICYMEASURED ONLY
01 form a hypothesis
02 change one variable
03 capture a runtime trace
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02 change one variable
03 capture a runtime trace
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CHOOSE YOUR ENTRY POINTFrom “what is a token?”
From “what is a token?”
to “what should I measure?”
FUTURE PATHBRING YOUR OWN ENVIRONMENT → LEARN FROM REAL TRACES Local llama.cpp Workstation GPU Cloud runners Learned dynamics