Inside vLLM: Anatomy of a High-Throughput LLM Inference System
Inside vLLM: Anatomy of a High-Throughput LLM Inference System – Aleksa Gordić

“In this post, I’ll gradually introduce all of the core system components and advanced features that make up a modern high-throughput LLM inference system. In particular I’ll be doing a breakdown of how vLLM [1] works.
This post is the first in a series. It starts broad and then layers in detail (following an inverse-pyramid approach) so you can form an accurate high-level mental model of the complete system without drowning in minutiae.
Later posts will dive into specific subsystems…”
Source: www.aleksagordic.com/blog/vllm
September 9, 2025
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