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More from the trenches.
Older posts. Same hot takes.
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ArchitectureRate limiting: protecting your AI wallet
One runaway agent loop can mean a $5,000 LLM bill. Why request-per-second limits lie, and how hierarchical token-bucket limits protect your margins.
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ArchitectureAPI gateway: the front door of your AI stack
Stop exposing LLM providers to your frontend. The API gateway pattern for AI apps: tenant isolation, model aliases, rate limiting, and streaming-safe timeouts.
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ShopifyShopify Storefront Web Components: headless light
Headless used to mean six engineers and a Hydrogen rebuild. Shopify Storefront Web Components drop products, collections, and cart into any page with a script.
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ArchitectureEvent-driven architecture with Google Pub/Sub
Decouple your services or drown in latency. Topics, fan-out, push vs pull, dead-letter queues, and idempotent consumers in a Laravel Pub/Sub blueprint.
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DevOpsSelf-hosted SaaS with Coolify and Docker
Get Heroku-grade DX on your own server. How Coolify and Docker on a $5 VPS deliver one-click databases, automatic SSL, and zero-downtime deploys.
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AIMCP tool-use: building context-aware agents
Build context-aware agents with MCP. How tools, resources, and prompts let one server talk to any client — and kill brittle one-off integrations for good.
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ArchitectureVibe coding: the shift to agentic workflows
MCP, agentic loops, and intent-based engineering. How vibe coding becomes a real architecture pattern, plus the Laravel and MCP stack I run today.
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AIWhy your RAG implementation is failing in production
Vector-only retrieval is the silent killer of production RAG. Hybrid search, BM25, rank fusion, re-rankers, and evals — the fixes that make it reliable.
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ArchitectureMonolith to microservices: a pragmatic guide
Skip the big-bang rewrite. The strangler fig pattern, anti-corruption layers, and Docker-first steps to move from monolith to microservices safely.
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