From Scratch
Michal PitrI build software from scratch and share my learnings! I especially enjoy topics around compilers, distributed systems, GPU programming, and Linux.
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Paper Journal: Disaggregated Serving
In this article, I won’t build anything From Scratch. Instead, I’ll cover a recent research paper DistServe: Disaggregating Prefill and Decoding for Goodput-optimized Large Language Model Serving whose findings have since been implemented i...
Optimizing matrix multiplication
This article is all about performance optimizations - squeezing as much performance out of my CPU as I can.
I’ll start with a naive matrix multiplication in C and then iteratively improve it until my implementation approaches that of A...
Linux container from scratch
I recently built a docker clone from scratch in Go. This made me wonder - how hard would it be to do the same step-by-step in a terminal? Let’s find out!
Safety warning
If you do decide to follow along, I’d highly recommend to setup a...
Primer on Linux container filesystems
I spent the weekend building a toy Docker clone. One question going into this project was how each container gets its own filesystem. Let’s first reverse-engineer what Docker does and then replicate it ourselves.
I’ll start by starting a s...
Inference Engine: Accelerating with CUDA
At the end of the last post in this series, we saw that my engine’s main bottleneck was matrix multiplication. Let’s for once use the GPU in my laptop for something other than League of Legends and accelerate the engine! By doing so, we’ll...
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