The KV Cache Is a Database. You're Probably Treating It Like a Buffer.
Every modern inference engine has a database hiding inside it — a content-addressable, multi-tenant, hierarchically-tiered store with eviction policies, locality of reference, and a 100× cost gap between hits and misses. Most teams ignore it. The ones who don't run inference at a fraction of the cost.
May 10, 202619 min read