datawhalechina/zero-to-sglang

Official SGLang x Datawhale course on LLM inference: understand inference, build a mini-sglang from scratch, then read the real SGLang source and land your first PR. Available in English and Chinese.

Learning & listsPython#infra#llm#sglang#cuda#datawhale

2.5 Cooling Magnitude out of 10. Star growth looks organic. Data as of September 14, 2026.

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About the project

A Datawhale and RadixArk course on LLM inference: explains KV Cache, prefill/decode and related concepts, then walks through building a mini-sglang from scratch toward reading the real SGLang source and landing a first PR.

Useful for

Understand how KV Cache works and how prefill differs from decode
Build your own mini-sglang step by step following the course
Prepare for a first SGLang PR by studying its source code

README summarized by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. Details may be inaccurate.

Why it’s trending

0 stars so far today, about 29 expected by the end of the day. The usual pace is 11 per day, so that's 2.7× as much.
Interest is fading: the two-day pace is 46% of the previous week and a half.
The repository is 18 days old and already has 849 stars.
Top new repositories this month: #99.
About 5 forks a day — people are taking the code.
Recent forks include notable developers: @mbrukman (386 followers).

Stars per day

Bars are daily stars, the line is the usual pace. Red marks spike days.

Numbers

Total stars: 849
Stars in a day: 29
Forks: 70
Issues and pull requests: 58
Watchers: 4
Language: Python
Created: August 27, 2026
Last push: September 12, 2026

Star trust

Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.

These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.

Spotted in

September 14, 2026Top new repositories this month: #98

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