Notes on high-throughput proxy design, Redis vector caching, memory safety, and LLM reliability in production.
August 31, 2026 · Engineering · 8 min read
Single-provider integrations turn every upstream incident into your outage. How to classify retryable failures, normalize schemas across four providers, and serve cached answers in under 25ms, with production Go and Python code.
Read postAugust 14, 2026 · Engineering · 9 min read
Python proxies run into GIL lock contention once streaming request volume spikes. Here is the benchmark data from our k6 load tests and why compiled memory safety matters for an AI gateway.
Read postJune 29, 2026 · FinOps & Caching · 6 min read
Exact match caching misses whenever a user rephrases a sentence. We run a two-tier lookup using fast SHA-256 keys followed by text-embedding-3-small vector similarity to return cached responses in under 25ms.
Read postMay 12, 2026 · Security & Compliance · 5 min read
Once customer data leaves your servers, you lose control over where it gets logged. We built an in-flight scanner that detects and masks SSNs, payment cards, and secret keys directly in RAM before the prompt hits the network.
Read postApril 03, 2026 · Engineering · 4 min read
Upstream provider outages happen weekly. A breakdown of how we classify retryable errors, normalize payloads across model families, and reroute active streams to backup models automatically.
Read postFebruary 18, 2026 · Product Releases · 5 min read
Charging a 10% token tax on top of LLM provider costs does not scale for production workloads. We moved to a flat infrastructure model where your keys stay in your own encrypted vault.
Read postJanuary 15, 2026 · Architecture · 7 min read
Traditional API gateways assume requests complete in 50ms and count raw HTTP hits. AI traffic requires token-aware rate limiting, streaming SSE buffers, and semantic deduplication.
Read postEvery post maps to a runnable gateway feature. The quickstart docs carry the SDK snippets, cache and fallback headers, and error codes from these articles, ready to paste into your own service.