Blog
From the desk — thoughts, post-mortems, and engineering breakdowns from building AI-powered and cloud-native products.
An in-depth analysis of in-memory vector calculations for semantic search. Learn how V8 memory heap limits break calculations at 1,000,000 files, and how to scale dynamically using scoped MongoDB filtering.
Debugging expired tokens in Next.js applications. A deep dive into why checking cookie existence in middleware leads to infinite redirect loops, and how to safely synchronize state via backend headers.
A practical guide to structuring async FastAPI services with SQLAlchemy 2.0, connection pooling, and request-scoped sessions — patterns I use in production backends.
Multi-stage builds, non-root users, health checks, and env validation — the Docker habits that prevent painful production surprises.
From static generation and SEO metadata to performance hygiene and deploy config — lessons from shipping my own engineering portfolio on Vercel.