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How I Replaced 50 Hours of Manual Work with a Single AI Agent
The architecture behind an autonomous AI agent that processes legal documents, generates drafts, and handles 80% of a lawyer's prep work — built with LangGraph and Temporal.
#ai#agents#langchain#architecture - 15.8K readers
Why Your RAG System Sucks (And How to Fix It)
The 7 most common RAG failures I've seen in production — bad chunking, missing re-ranking, no evaluation, and the fixes that actually work.
#rag#ai#architecture#python - 8.7K readers
System Design: How We Built a Real-Time Analytics Platform at IBM
The architecture behind a cloud-native analytics platform processing millions of events daily across AWS, Azure, and GCP — with Kafka, Kubernetes, and custom ML models.
#system-design#kafka#kubernetes#ibm - 4.2K readers
Building Scalable AI Applications with RAG and LangChain
A practical guide to building production-ready RAG applications using LangChain, covering architecture patterns, chunking strategies, and scaling considerations.
#ai#rag#langchain#python - 6.3K readers
Scaling Tesco's Online Grocery to Millions of Users Across 3 Continents
Inside the engineering challenges of building and scaling Tesco's omnichannel grocery platform for UK, Central Europe, and Asia Pacific.
#case-study#react#microservices#enterprise - 2.8K readers
Building an AI-Powered Contact Enrichment Platform
How I built an AI agent that enriches 10,000+ contacts daily with 95% accuracy, transforming a B2B SaaS company's sales pipeline.
#ai#langchain#case-study#saas - 3.5K readers
Building a RAG System for 50K+ Regulatory Documents
How I built an enterprise document search system for a Fortune 500 financial services company that reduced lookup time by 90%.
#rag#ai#enterprise#case-study - 1.8K readers
Unifying Data from 12 Tools into a Single Dashboard
Building a real-time data platform that consolidated HubSpot, Salesforce, Stripe, and 9 other tools for a Series B startup.
#data#full-stack#case-study - 3.2K readers
Advanced TypeScript Patterns for Enterprise Applications
Type-safe patterns for building large-scale TypeScript applications — discriminated unions, branded types, and generic constraints.
#typescript#javascript#patterns - 2.4K readers
Deploying an AI Support Agent That Handles 70% of Queries
How I built an AI-powered customer support agent for an e-commerce platform that saved $150K annually.
#ai#rag#case-study#e-commerce - 3.7K readers
Microservices Architecture with Node.js and Docker
Lessons from building and deploying microservices at scale — service communication, containerization, and observability patterns.
#nodejs#docker#microservices#devops - 5.1K readers
AI Agent Development with CrewAI and AutoGen
A practical comparison of multi-agent frameworks — when to use CrewAI, AutoGen, or LangGraph for building AI agent systems.
#ai#agents#python#langchain - 2.9K readers
Event-Driven Architecture with Kafka and Message Queues
Designing resilient, scalable systems with Kafka, RabbitMQ, and event-driven patterns — producers, consumers, and exactly-once semantics.
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