Web Performance on a Budget: Bundle Size, API Limits, and Database Indexes
The three budgets every web app hits: bundle size, API rate limits, and database index selectivity. Learn the formulas, thresholds, and PR checklist…
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The three budgets every web app hits: bundle size, API rate limits, and database index selectivity. Learn the formulas, thresholds, and PR checklist…
What tok/s really measures, how concurrency changes it, and why a single-user benchmark is not the whole story for local LLM performance. A Few Mome…
Compare vLLM and Ollama for LLM serving in 2026 — architecture, verified performance under concurrency, and a decision framework for choosing or com…
A comprehensive framework for deciding between local LLMs and cloud APIs. Covers cost, privacy, latency, control, and the hybrid approach. The Cathe…
What Are Tokens and Why Do They Matter? A token is the atomic unit of computation for large language models. When you type a prompt into ChatGPT, Cl…
Last year, I noticed a significant increase in DNS resolution times for a critical service of one of my clients. Initially, I suspected a problem at…
When I received an offer to lead a team developing a new module for a production ERP, two different paths emerged in my mind: deepening my existing…
If you've been anywhere near the tech world in the past two years, you've heard the term "large language model" (LLM) thrown around constantly. But…
Recently, while working on a feature for the backend of one of my side products that relied on the Google Cloud Vision API, an instant outage of the…
How to Use Chinese LLMs Without a Chinese Phone Number If you've tried signing up for any Chinese AI service, you've seen the same message: Please e…
Why AdGuard Home Overtook Pi-hole Last month, while attempting to add ad filtering to the internal network of a production ERP system, the Pi-hole c…
Static API keys in client config are the easy way to authenticate an MCP server and the easy way to leak a credential. The Model Context Protocol's…
The idea of running a local LLM (Large Language Model) has always appealed to me, especially concerning data privacy and cost control. However, when…
Set Up Your Own ChatGPT: Ollama + Open WebUI for Data That Never Leaves Home As artificial intelligence models rapidly integrate into our lives, pri…
Kotlin 2.0 vs Python 3.13: The Definitive Guide to Benchmarking in Production With Kotlin 2.0’s stable K2 compiler and Python 3.13’s experimental fr…