Design a ChatGPT-like serving system

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This question evaluates expertise in designing scalable machine-learning inference systems, covering chat-completion architecture, GPU capacity planning for large transformers, and stateful KV-cache design, layout, latency, and consistency considerations.

Design a ChatGPT-like serving system

Company: Microsoft

Role: Software Engineer

Category: System Design

Difficulty: medium

Interview Round: Technical Screen

Overview: This question evaluates expertise in designing scalable machine-learning inference systems, covering chat-completion architecture, GPU capacity planning for large transformers, and stateful KV-cache design, layout, latency, and consistency considerations.

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