6 posts
Plugin systems often collapse under dependency conflicts and loose permissions. Wasm Component Model standardizes interfaces, capabilities, and runtime boundaries for multi-language plugins and edge execution.
Vector search is not finished when you concatenate every field and send it to an embedding model. This article uses a fictional API marketplace to explain noisy text, long descriptions, URLs, thresholds, hybrid retrieval, and evaluation sets.
A practical internal package workflow using pypiserver and uv: authentication, PEP 440 versioning, setuptools-scm, Docker without git, uv project configuration, BuildKit secrets, and CI publishing pitfalls.
A practical record of building zipress from scratch: product requirements, Next.js plus FastAPI architecture, real Cursor prompts, user flow diagrams, uniform and mixed layout exports, deployment notes, and open-source repository.
A practical walkthrough of building log-based observability with Grafana, Loki, LogQL, request-rate charts, latency panels, status-code breakdowns, p95 estimates, and Feishu-style webhook alerts.
When thousands of entities need to be labeled by an LLM, the naive approach can be shockingly expensive. This article breaks down reusable optimizations: hierarchical pruning, inheritance, batching, incremental skipping, ancestor expansion, prompt caching, and asyncio orchestration.