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The 2026 Playbook for Scaling LLM Inference: VRAM Math, Hardware, and Bare-Metal Economics

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Getting an open-weight model like Llama 3.3 70B or DeepSeek running in a staging environment is relatively easy. Keeping it responsive and economical in production? That is a much harder problem. I see this constantly. A pilot project runs perfectly on a standard cloud GPU instance with a handful o…

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  1. 2026-09-10 05:19 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
    The 2026 Playbook for Scaling LLM Inference: VRAM Math, Hardware, and Bare-Metal Economics

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