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HOW VLLM
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A high-throughput and memory-efficient inference and serving engine for LLMs. Conventions, patterns, and architecture extracted from the vllm-project/vllm repository by sourcebook.

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This is a publishable library, not an application. Focus changes on the public API surface.

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Hub files: vllm/logger.py (imported by 599 files), vllm/config/__init__.py (imported by 467 files). Changes here have the widest blast radius.

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Uses __init__.py as barrel exports. Import from the package, not from internal modules.

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Use @dataclass for data structures. This is the project's standard validation approach.

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Third-party integrations live under vllm/plugins/. Each integration has its own directory.

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