Month archive

Everything published in July 2026.

The 7 articles published in July 2026 cover Inference Systems and Evaluation and Security. They were published from July 3 to 24, 2026, and are listed newest first.

7 articlesJuly 2026

Articles from July 2026

Transformer Inference, From HTTP Request to the Next Token

A systems-level tour of prefill, decode, batching, memory movement, and the scheduling decisions that determine real-world LLM latency.

KV Cache Engineering: Pages, Prefix Reuse, and Memory Pressure

How to size, allocate, reuse, compress, and evict the state that makes autoregressive decoding practical.

Semantic Caching Without Serving the Wrong Answer Faster

A production design for similarity keys, freshness, authorization, invalidation, and the economics that determine when semantic reuse is safe.

Speculative Decoding Without Hand-Waving

Draft models, acceptance math, tree proposals, and the operational details that decide whether speculation makes serving faster.

Synthetic Evaluation Data That Finds Real Failures

How to generate, filter, diversify, and maintain synthetic cases without turning an evaluation suite into a mirror of its generator.

The LLM Gateway Is a Policy Engine, Not a Proxy

Designing the routing, budgets, identity, resilience, and evidence layer between products and a changing model portfolio.

Privacy-Preserving AI Is a Dataflow Architecture

Purpose limitation, minimization, isolation, retention, redaction, and verifiable deletion across retrieval, models, tools, traces, and feedback loops.