production-llm-engineer
37 Steps • ~120m runtimeProduction LLM Architecture
Architect dependable, observable full-stack LLM products: streaming event interfaces, state checkpointing, capacity planning, regression monitoring, and tenant isolation.
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Tokens and Tokenization
How model inputs become discrete identifiers and why token boundaries affect cost and meaning.
Architectural Intuition
A language model does not read characters or words directly. A tokenizer converts text into a sequence of IDs drawn from a fixed vocabulary; the model operates on the learned vectors associated with those IDs.
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