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AI Architecture

LLM Gateway Architecture in 2026: Routing, Caching, and the Cost Math

One company cut its LLM bill from $47K to $12.7K a month with a gateway. Here's the architecture, the latency tradeoffs, and which gateway to actually pick.

7 min read
llm gatewaylitellmbifrost
AI Architecture

Context Engineering: Why a Bigger Context Window Makes Your Agent Worse

Million-token windows don't fix agents — they break them. The context rot data, the 32K cliff, and the three techniques that actually work in 2026.

6 min read
context engineeringcontext rotai agents
AI Architecture

LLM Fine-Tuning vs RAG: When to Use Each in Production

OpenAI is shutting its fine-tuning platform on May 8, 2026. Here's the real cost math, the benchmark data, and how to decide between RAG and fine-tuning.

7 min read
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System Design

Designing Netflix's Recommendation Engine With AI Agents

Netflix replaced 30+ recommendation models with one foundation model in March 2025. Here's where AI agents fit — and where they break the 200ms latency budget.

7 min read
recommendation systemsai agentsnetflix
AI Architecture

Google's Agent2Agent (A2A) Protocol — Multi-Agent Interoperability in 2026

How A2A v1.0, signed Agent Cards, and 150+ org adoption made cross-vendor agent communication a real production layer in 2026.

8 min read
A2A protocolmulti-agent systemsagent interoperability
AI Architecture

Building RAG on Amazon Bedrock — Knowledge Bases, Guardrails, and Agents in 2026

S3 Vectors killed the OpenSearch tax. Guardrails dropped 80%. Here's how to actually ship RAG on Bedrock in 2026 without the $350/month trap.

8 min read
Amazon BedrockRAGKnowledge Bases
AI Architecture

Amazon Bedrock Pricing Deep Dive — Real Costs at 1M, 10M, and 100M Tokens

Real Bedrock costs at scale: Sonnet vs Nova, the OpenSearch trap, and three discounts that cut bills in half. Numbers the marketing page hides.

8 min read
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AI Architecture

Kubernetes for AI Workloads in 2026 — GPU Scheduling, Autoscaling, and the 5% Problem

How DRA, KAI, Kueue, Karpenter, and vLLM cut your Kubernetes GPU bill 50–70% in 2026 — and why most clusters still run at 5% utilization.

5 min read
kubernetesgpuai-infrastructure
AI Architecture

Self-Hosting LLMs in 2026 — When It Makes Sense and When It Doesn't

The break-even is 500M tokens a day. Below that, APIs win. Here's the actual math, the hidden costs, and the four conditions that justify your own GPUs in 2026.

8 min read
self-hosted LLMvLLMGPU infrastructure
AI Architecture

AI Coding Agents Compared 2026 — Cursor vs GitHub Copilot vs Claude Code vs Windsurf

Cursor 3.0, Copilot agent mode, Claude Code Opus 4.7, Windsurf SWE-1.5. Real benchmarks, real pricing, real picks for May 2026.

9 min read
AI Coding AgentsCursorGitHub Copilot
AI Architecture

Vibe Coding in 2026 — What It Actually Means for Engineering Teams

The term Karpathy coined is already obsolete. Here's what vibe coding does to engineering teams in 2026 — adoption, productivity, security, the playbook.

7 min read
vibe codingagentic engineeringAI coding tools
AI Infrastructure

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore: From Idea to AI Agent in Minutes

AgentCore is AWS's modular agent platform — Runtime, Memory, Gateway, Identity, and Observability you can adopt one piece at a time. Here is what it actually does.

9 min read
AWSBedrockAgentCore
AI Architecture

Amazon Bedrock vs Google Vertex AI vs Azure AI — The Real Architecture Difference

The architectural choices behind the three big enterprise AI platforms — and the trade-offs every team hits in production.

11 min read
Amazon BedrockVertex AIAzure AI Foundry
AI Architecture

MCP: The Complete Developer Guide to Model Context Protocol

How Model Context Protocol actually works under the hood — primitives, transports, security, and the production patterns nobody warns you about.

11 min read
MCPModel Context ProtocolAnthropic
AI Infrastructure

Vector Databases at Scale: pgvector vs Pinecone vs Qdrant

The real trade-offs between pgvector, Pinecone, and Qdrant — benchmarks, cost at 1M/10M/100M vectors, and the scaling walls that hit at 3 AM.

12 min read
Vector DatabasepgvectorPinecone
AI Architecture

GPT-5.5 vs DeepSeek V4: The Real Cost Gap Nobody Talks About

A 10 QPS RAG system costs $15K/month on OpenAI. The same workload on self-hosted DeepSeek V4 runs at $2,500. Here is what actually changes.

6 min read
LLM cost optimizationOpenAI API pricingself-hosted LLM
AI Architecture

Multi-Agent AI: How Teams of Agents Replace Single Models

Why single-agent AI fails at complex tasks and how production multi-agent systems work — orchestrators, specialized agents, tools, shared memory, and routing.

8 min read
Multi-Agent AICrewAILangGraph
AI Infrastructure

LLM Inference: How to Cut Your GPU Bill from $60K to $6K

Five production techniques that reduce LLM serving costs by 90% — continuous batching, KV cache management, quantization, model parallelism, and intelligent routing.

8 min read
LLM InferenceGPU OptimizationvLLM
AI Architecture

Building Efficient RAG Pipelines with Vector Databases

The five stages of a production RAG pipeline — and the chunking, embedding, and retrieval mistakes that silently kill accuracy.

8 min read
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