Scaling the Inference Wall: Disaggregated Prefill-Decode, Multi-Head Latent Attention (MLA), and the vLLM V1 vs. SGLang Duel
An in-depth technical analysis of the late-2026 breakthroughs in LLM serving infrastructure. Analyze the mechanics of Multi-head Latent Attention (MLA), the vLLM V1 engine rewrite vs. SGLang, Disaggregated Prefill/Decode, and EAGLE-3 speculative decoding.