Cloud Run vs GKE: How I Actually Choose
Cloud Run and GKE both run containers on GCP. Beyond that, they have different operational models, different cost structures, and different ceilings. Choosing between them isn't about which is "better
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Redis Patterns Every Backend Engineer Should Know
Redis gets reached for because it's fast. That's often the wrong reason. Speed isn't a pattern — it's a property. Using Redis correctly means understanding what each pattern is actually good at and, j
Prompt Versioning and Cost Control: Running LLMs Responsibly in Production
The monthly bill was ten times the estimate. Investigation took two hours. Three things were wrong. A retry loop was calling the model on every validation error — including schema mismatches that woul
Async AI Pipelines in FastAPI: Streaming, Queuing, and Long-Running Requests
The document extraction endpoint was synchronous. A request came in, the service sent the document to OpenAI, waited for the full response, parsed it, wrote to the database, and returned. Each request
GitHub Actions I Set Up on Every Project
Most engineers using GitHub Actions daily know how to write a basic workflow — checkout, install dependencies, run tests, deploy. That covers 80% of what they need. The other 20% is a set of features
When Terraform Gets Messy: Refactoring, Imports, and State Surgery
S01E06 of Terraform for Application Engineers
Terraform CI/CD: Plan on PR, Apply on Merge
S01E05 of Terraform for Application Engineers