Introduction to LLM
This page provides an easy-to-understand guide on LLMs (Large Language Models) from basics to applications for AI enthusiasts.
Chapter 13 — Autoscaling and Cold-Start Mitigation
Thirteenth post of the LLM Primer VI walkthrough. Why standard HPA fails for LLM serving, KEDA for TTFT-aware scaling, Knative scale-to-zero, and CRIU / CUDA graph caching for sub-5-second cold starts.
2026-05-05
Chapter 3 — Advanced Chunking Frameworks
Third post of the LLM Primer III walkthrough. The chunking spectrum from fixed-size to structure-aware, the overlap myth, the context cliff that destroys retrieval quietly, and the contextual-retrieval and late-chunking techniques that have reshaped the frontier.
2026-03-20
Chapter 2 — Intelligent Document Parsing
Second post of the LLM Primer III walkthrough. Why a PDF is not a text file, what layout-aware parsers actually preserve, the current tool landscape (LlamaParse, Docling, Unstructured, Marker-PDF, Firecrawl, DeepSeek-OCR), and the multimodal track that retrieves over page images directly.
2026-03-19