Engineering Notes
Thinking on AI systems, architecture, and the craft of building things that work.
Engineering
How We Cut Gallery Bandwidth 98% with imgproxy
How we used imgproxy in front of MinIO to serve resized, WebP-converted thumbnails for AI-generated image galleries — cutting gallery bandwidth by ~98%.
EngineeringRAG Systems Without the Hype: What Actually Works in Production
Retrieval-Augmented Generation is powerful when built right. Most implementations fail at the same three points.