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Expand Up @@ -102,6 +102,25 @@ And use a GUI to test the inference:
* [Create a multi agent fleet](https://paddler.intentee.com/docs/starting-out/multi-agent-fleet/)
* [Go beyond a single device](https://paddler.intentee.com/docs/starting-out/going-beyond-a-single-device/)

## FAQ
<details>
<summary><strong>What’s the difference between Paddler and llama.cpp RPC?</strong></summary>

- **Paddler provides:**
- Dynamic service discovery (agents can be added/removed at runtime)
- Fault tolerance with automatic handling of unavailable agents
- LLM-aware load balancing based on slot utilization
- Runtime reconfiguration without restarts
- Elastic scaling, including scale-to-zero via request buffering

- **llama.cpp RPC** focuses on practicality, relies on predefined hosts at startup,
has limited fault tolerance, and uses a round-robin load balancing unaware of LLM execution time.

- For more information, see
[GitHub issue #35](https://github.com/intentee/paddler/issues/35).

</details>

## Why the Name

We initially wanted to use [Raft](https://raft.github.io/) consensus algorithm (thus Paddler, because it paddles on a Raft), but eventually dropped that idea. The name stayed, though.
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