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Apr 19, 2026

LibreChat vs. Rolling Your Own AI Layer: When Each Makes Sense

Platforms like LibreChat give you a production-ready chat UI, multi-model routing, and built-in Langfuse integration. Custom agent frameworks give you reactive UI, transactional tool execution, and full rendering control. Here is how I decide between them across four different products.

Apr 18, 2026

When Is the Right Time to Use Microfrontends?

Microfrontends are not a default architecture. Here is how I decided to migrate from a frontend monolith to domain-based frontend apps, what changed in deployment speed and cost, and when this approach is worth it.

Apr 12, 2026

AI Safety and Guardrails in Production Systems

Our first AI feature hallucinated a compliance finding that did not exist. A client acted on it. Here is how we built input sanitization, output filtering, confidence scoring, and human-in-the-loop escalation to make AI output trustworthy.

Apr 10, 2026

Building an Eval Framework for AI Compliance Scanning

AI scanners find accessibility violations that deterministic tools miss — but how do you know the AI is not hallucinating? We built an evaluation harness that measures precision and recall against axe-core ground truth, gates every prompt change with regression tests, and tracks quality drift in ClickHouse.

Apr 5, 2026

Portal V4: Bare Metal, Kubernetes, and True Multi-Tenancy

We moved off Vercel onto a 128GB bare-metal server. Each client now gets their own frontend containers, their own Convex backend instance, and their own database backups — orchestrated with Kubernetes and Helm. Here is how we got here and what we learned about owning infrastructure.

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