Technical Notes & Benchmarks
Empirical engineering breakdowns, reproducible benchmarks, and architecture teardowns grounded in production systems. No fluff or vague marketing copy.
Building Grounded RAG Systems: Eliminating Hallucinations in Production
How to design production retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) architectures with multi-provider LLM failover, deterministic vector chunking, and negative-constraint prompting.
Fail-Closed Web Scraping: Preventing Silent Data Loss in Python Automation
How to design bulletproof web scraping and monitoring pipelines using SQLite WAL mode, exponential backoff, and fail-closed architecture with zero silent data loss.
Next.js 15 App Router: 7 Production Architecture Patterns for AI Apps
A battle-tested guide to building high-performance AI web applications with Next.js 15, React 19 Server Components, streaming UI, and strict TypeScript.
RapidOCR vs Tesseract: A Benchmark on Multi-Column PDF Layouts
A reproducible benchmark comparing RapidOCR (ONNX) and Tesseract across multi-column PDFs, measuring Character Error Rate, CPU speedup, and layout accuracy.