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Building Lyte: A Production grade AI native mobile app generator - Part 6/6

Building Lyte (Part 6): Evals, Bulkheads, and Production Scaling

Scaling AI infrastructure and building an Eval Framework. Using LLM-as-a-Judge and deterministic checks for automated LLM regression testing.

Published: July 30, 2026

Building Lyte: A Production grade AI native mobile app generator - Part 5/6

System Design

Building Lyte (Part 5): Reliable Real-Time UX and the ACK Protocol

Scaling real-time AI UIs with Next.js and Zustand. Implementing WebSockets, Redis Pub/Sub, and an ACK Protocol for robust asynchronous LLM streams.

Published: July 29, 2026

Building Lyte: A Production grade AI native mobile app generator - Part 4/6

Building Lyte (Part 4): Prompt Engineering and Self-Healing Code

Advanced Prompt Engineering and AI Self-Healing. Using Anthropic Prompt Caching and a deterministic TypeScript compiler loop to eliminate LLM hallucinations.

Published: July 28, 2026

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Building Lyte: A Production grade AI native mobile app generator - Part 3/6

Building Lyte (Part 3): The Context Crisis and Codebase RAG

Building Codebase RAG with pgvector. Overcoming LLM context window limits using Hybrid Search (HNSW + BM25) for high-accuracy code retrieval.

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Published: July 27, 2026

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Building Lyte: A Production grade AI native mobile app generator - Part 2/6

Building Lyte (Part 2): The Agentic Engine and Token Economics

Deep dive into AI Engineering: Building a ReAct agent loop, migrating to native JSON Function Calling, and optimizing LLM token economics.

Published: July 26, 2026

Building Lyte: A Production grade AI native mobile app generator - Part 1/6

System Design

Building Lyte (Part 1): The Distributed Foundation and Crises in Concurrency

How to build the distributed infrastructure for an AI agent. Learn how we fixed dual-write bugs, Redis race conditions, and scaled Node.js LLM sandboxes.

Published: July 25, 2026

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I Tried Building GPT From Scratch. Here's What I Learned.

I shipped AI features for two years without understanding how any of it worked. So I built a tiny GPT from scratch that hallucinates cooking recipes. Here's what it taught me about transformers, attention, and training.

Published: July 6, 2026

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Published: February 14, 2026

The Night Everything Went Wrong (A Real Migration Crisis)

A story from the trenches of backend engineering: an overnight migration under pressure, impossible timelines, and the decisions that saved a business-critical customer.

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Published: December 14, 2025

Building Chronon: A Distributed Rate Limiter

How I built a production-grade distributed rate limiter from scratch using Redis, consistent hashing, and TypeScript.

Published: December 5, 2025

Building a Cloud IDE from Scratch: Architecting 'Just Run It' with Kubernetes, WebSockets, and Real-Time Terminals

A deep dive into creating a production-grade cloud development environment that dynamically provisions isolated coding workspaces on demand.

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Published: December 1, 2025

Building Parcelo: A Distributed Job Scheduler That Actually Makes Sense

How I built a production-grade job scheduler using binary tree splitting, and what I learned about distributed systems along the way.

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Published: October 19, 2024

Spring Boot Internals Explained with Simple, Fun Example Like You're 5

Understanding Spring Boot internals through simple, relatable examples that make complex concepts easy to grasp.

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Master Docker: Basics to Advanced - Part 5/5

Docker Compose Deep Dive: Advanced Techniques for Multi-Container Applications

Master Docker Compose for orchestrating multi-container applications.

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Published: September 24, 2024

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Master Docker: Basics to Advanced - Part 4/5

Persistent Storage in Docker: Volumes, Bind Mounts, and tmpfs

Comprehensive guide to Docker persistent storage using volumes, bind mounts, and tmpfs.

Published: September 20, 2024

8 min read

Master Docker: Basics to Advanced - Part 3/5

Dockerfile Best Practices: Minimizing Image Size and Enhancing Performance

Master advanced Dockerfile techniques including multi-stage builds, layer optimization, and caching strategies. Learn to minimize image size, enhance performance, and implement security best practices for production-ready Docker images.

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Published: September 17, 2024

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