When LLM Serving Meets Real Traffic: How SGLang Makes Inference Performance an Engineering Practice
Connecting an open-source model to an API is only the first step. SGLang focuses on high-performance serving for LLMs and multimodal models, offering an OpenAI-compatible interface, native generation APIs, and multiple deployment paths. This article examines the problems it addresses, how to get started, the boundaries of performance engineering, and which teams should consider trying it first.