Unit 5.4 β€” Cost Optimization & Scaling

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[Verse 1]
Count your tokens, watch the clock tick
Every GPU second costs you quick
Spot instances dancing, prices drop and rise
Reserved capacity locks in your prize
Quantize your models, INT8 makes them lean
Pruning dead neurons keeps the engine clean

[Chorus]
Scale smart, spend wise, optimize the machine
Cache what you can, keep your pipeline clean
Build versus buy, weigh the cost in time
TPU or GPU, make your mountain climb
Horizontal scaling when the traffic swells
Cost optimization rings the dinner bells

[Verse 2]
GPTQ compression squeezes every bit
AWQ quantization makes your model fit
Semantic caching stores the common calls
Prompt cache remembers when the pattern falls
KV cache optimization holds the keys
Load balancers spread across the seas

[Chorus]
Scale smart, spend wise, optimize the machine
Cache what you can, keep your pipeline clean
Build versus buy, weigh the cost in time
TPU or GPU, make your mountain climb
Horizontal scaling when the traffic swells
Cost optimization rings the dinner bells

[Bridge]
Queue-based systems buffer every spike
Self-hosted servers or API strikes?
Open source freedom versus vendor lock
Commercial support around the clock
Benchmark quality against the speed
Latency costs feed the business need

[Verse 3]
Autoscaling pods grow with demand
Infrastructure dancing, perfectly planned
Distillation teaches smaller minds to think
Student learns from teacher at the brink
Measure twice, deploy once, count the cost
Optimization found, efficiency crossed

[Chorus]
Scale smart, spend wise, optimize the machine
Cache what you can, keep your pipeline clean
Build versus buy, weigh the cost in time
TPU or GPU, make your mountain climb
Horizontal scaling when the traffic swells
Cost optimization rings the dinner bells

[Outro]
From compute cores to caching schemes
Scaling AI fulfills your dreams
Cost and quality in perfect rhyme
Optimized and scaled, every single time

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