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Prefill/Decode Disaggregation: Why Production LLM Inference Is Splitting Onto Separate Hardware

calendar_today July 15, 2026 person Shaoni Mukherjee domain digital-ocean

Long prompts stall everyone else’s tokens on shared GPUs. Why Mooncake, DeepSeek, and NVIDIA Dynamo split prefill and decode onto separate hardware.

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