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Serving and Speculative Decoding: Throughput, Latency and Traffic Shape
Serving language models involves trade-offs between latency for each user and throughput across all users. This guide explains batching, the memory constraints of long contexts, speculative decoding and why its benefits depend on load, and how product traffic shape should drive serving choices.
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