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AI systems at Capacities
How we are building a sensible approach to AI systems for Personal Knowledge Management.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.