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llminfrastructure+3
AI systems at Capacities
How we are building a sensible approach to AI systems for Personal Knowledge Management.
Aug 11, 202621 min read
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Bitcoin Portfolio App: Pushing Data Sync to the Browser
How I beat public API rate limits on an 8€ budget: A look at Go microservices, shared chain caching and client-side blockchain sync.
May 10, 202616 min read
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Scaling Capacities: Why we swapped Dgraph for PostgreSQL
How we achieved a 70% infrastructure cost reduction by migrating from a self-hosted graph database to a managed relational model.
Jan 7, 20267 min read
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Redis 7.4 to Valkey 7.2 Migration Guide with Amazon MemoryDB
A step-by-step production migration guide from Redis 7.4 (standalone) to Valkey 7.2 on Amazon MemoryDB, including a queue architecture migration from RSMQ to BullMQ for Redis Cluster compatibility.
Jan 5, 20265 min read
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Learnings from: Building a Production-Ready RAG Agentic System
A technical deep-dive into my 3-month journey at Turing College’s AI Engineering program, moving from traditional web development to building agentic systems with Vercel AI SDK, pgvector, and hybrid retrieval.
Dec 27, 202510 min read
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Learnings from: Designing Data-Intensive Applications
A short overview of what stood out to me from reading the O'Reilly book "Designing Data Intensive Applications" by Martin Kleppmann.
Dec 17, 20255 min read
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Welcome to The Tech Noob
An introduction to this blog and what you can expect to find here. Join me on a journey through software engineering, side projects, and continuous learning.
Dec 16, 20252 min read
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