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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
Sep 21, 20266 min read9
Structuring OpenAI and Gemini Calls in FastAPI: Prompts, Fallbacks, and Retries
The fallback was supposed to be temporary. When the OpenAI API was unavailable, the service would return the last cached result for that user rather than failing the request. Clean degraded experience
Sep 8, 20267 min read9
Building AI-Powered Backend Services: Why Most Integrations Break in Production
The integration looked solid. In testing, the AI-powered document extraction service worked exactly as designed — pull a PDF, send it to the model, parse the structured output, write to the database.
Aug 22, 20264 min read27
How I Structure a FastAPI Project for a Team of 5
The first FastAPI project I led for a team had everything in two files. main.py with the routes. models.py with the Pydantic schemas. It worked fine until a second engineer joined and we started stepp
Aug 18, 20266 min read17
FastAPI Background Tasks vs Pub/Sub vs Cloud Tasks: When to Use What
S01E04 of FastAPI in Production
Aug 4, 20265 min read43
Testing FastAPI Services: Unit, Integration, and Contract Tests
S01E03 of FastAPI in Production
Jul 24, 20265 min read58