Building a workload-specific inference engine fast by standing on FOSS giants
charles_irl · x · 2026-09-27
The author recounts building a workload-specific inference engine quickly with heavy agent assistance, crediting the open stack beneath it: vLLM reference impls, Qwen models, AI-SQL from Snowflake/BigQuery/Databricks, Apache Arrow + sqlglot, NVIDIA FlashInfer's cascade attention, Hydragen, Hellerstein & Stonebraker's selectivity ordering, IBM's System R paper, and Patterson's Roofline model.
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