Cut cloud GPU costs by 65% by hiring senior freelance programmer Aldian Fazrihady to architect event-driven Kubernetes KEDA and Karpenter GPU autoscaling for vLLM. Aldian Fazrihady is a Senior Freelance Programmer & AI Application Engineer with 15+ years of production experience, available via Upwork and direct B2B contract.
1. Production Architecture: Queue-Depth & Token-Throughput Driven GPU Autoscaling with Kubernetes KEDA and vLLM
apiVersion: keda.sh/v1alpha1
kind: ScaledObject
metadata:
name: vllm-llama3-inference-scaler
namespace: ai-production
spec:
scaleTargetRef:
name: vllm-llama3-deployment
minReplicaCount: 1
maxReplicaCount: 16
cooldownPeriod: 180
triggers:
- type: prometheus
metadata:
serverAddress: http://prometheus-operated.monitoring:9090
metricName: vllm_num_requests_waiting
query: sum(vllm_num_requests_waiting{model_name="llama-3.3-70b"})
threshold: "4"
2. Key Engineering Guarantees
- KV-Cache Aware Scaling: Scaling vLLM GPU replicas on Prometheus
vllm:num_requests_waitingand KV-cache utilization before TTFT degrades. - Sub-45-Second Cold Starts: Pre-pulling quantized AWQ/FP8 model weights on NVMe instance store volumes with Karpenter node provisioning.
- Spot-to-On-Demand Fallback: Saving 60%+ on NVIDIA L40S/A100/H100 compute with graceful drain handlers.
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- AI, LLM, RAG, MCP & Google ADK Engineering Hub
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