Reduce LLM Costs: Token Optimization Strategies
Cut LLM costs by 80% with smart token optimization
Token optimization is the critical skill separating cost-effective LLM applications from budget-draining experiments.
Cut LLM costs by 80% with smart token optimization
Token optimization is the critical skill separating cost-effective LLM applications from budget-draining experiments.
Event-driven architecture with AWS Kinesis for scale
AWS Kinesis has become a cornerstone for building modern event-driven microservices architectures, enabling real-time data processing at scale with minimal operational overhead.
Optimize frontend APIs with GraphQL BFF and Apollo Server
The Backend for Frontend (BFF) pattern combined with GraphQL and Apollo Server creates a powerful architecture for modern web applications.
Python testing with pytest, TDD, mocking, and coverage
Unit testing ensures your Python code works correctly and continues to work as your project evolves. This comprehensive guide covers everything you need to know about unit testing in Python, from basic concepts to advanced techniques.
Build MCP servers for AI assistants with Python examples
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is revolutionizing how AI assistants interact with external data sources and tools. In this guide, we’ll explore how to build MCP servers in Python, with examples focused on web search and scraping capabilities.
Own your content and control your identity
The web was originally designed as a decentralized network where anyone could publish and connect. Over time, corporate platforms consolidated control, creating walled gardens where users are products and content is locked in. The Indie Web movement aims to restore the original promise of the web: personal ownership, creative freedom, and genuine connection.
How to manage state in Flutter
In this article, we’ll explore six popular ways of managing state in Flutter apps, including real examples and best practices:
Step-by-step example
Here we have a Python Lambda example of SQS Message Processor + REST API with API Key Protection + Terraform script to deploy it for serverless execution.
How to develop Amazon Alexa Skill - instructions.
In this article, we’ll take a deep dive into Alexa skill development, testing, and publishing. We’ll also cover design principles, technical considerations, and best practices to ensure your skill provides an engaging and natural user experience.
Slightly different APIs require special approach.
Here’s a side-by-side support comparison of structured output (getting reliable JSON back) across popular LLM providers, plus minimal Python examples
A couple of ways to get structured output from Ollama
Large Language Models (LLMs) are powerful, but in production we rarely want free-form paragraphs. Instead, we want predictable data: attributes, facts, or structured objects you can feed into an app. That’s LLM Structured Output.
And deploying new Telegram bot to AWS
Here are my notes with step-by-step tutorial on how to implement and deploy to AWS a Telegram bot. I’ve added a quick start (long polling) and a production-ready path (webhooks), with examples in Python and Node.js.
Longread about MCP scpecs and implementation in GO
Here we have a description of The Model Context Protocol (MCP), short notes on how to implement an MCP server in Go, including message structure, protocol specifications.
Nice framework for ETS/MLOPS with Python
Apache Airflow is an open-source platform designed to programmatically author, schedule, and monitor workflows, - entirely in Python code, offering a flexible and powerful alternative to traditional, manual, or UI-based workflow tools.
Good things about Python uv
Python uv (pronounced “you-vee”) is a modern, high-performance Python package and project manager written in Rust. It is designed as a drop-in replacement for traditional Python package management tools such as pip, pip-tools, virtualenv, pipx, and pyenv, aiming to simplify and accelerate Python development workflows
Flutter Web app build and host with Docker containers
Several examples of Dockerfiles for building and hosting Flutter web apps, Ubuntu-based Flutter Build image + Webapp image on Nginx.