Showing 15 articles on Production. From fundamental concepts to advanced patterns.
Explore all posts tagged with Production. Each article in this collection covers core concepts, practical implementations, and real-world patterns to deepen your understanding.
Whether you are just getting started or looking to master advanced techniques, these curated posts provide the depth and clarity needed to build production-grade skills in Production.
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Every developer has a blog in 2026. So why did I spend six months building my own? Because I wanted to teach things that Medium, Dev.to, and WordPress cannot support — interactive code, RAG chat, gamification, and a learning engine that rewards understanding, not scrolling. This is the architecture story.
One codebase, two runtimes, 29 API routers, 21 database models, and a background scheduler. Here's how the monorepo is structured, why every directory exists, and how the pieces fit together without a third-party CMS.
Building a production RAG chat system from scratch using OpenAI embeddings, pgvector HNSW indexing, and hybrid search. Explains how the Ask AI page works: OpenAI text-embedding-3-small generates 1536-dimensional embeddings stored in PostgreSQL with pgvector and HNSW indexes for fast approximate nearest-neighbor search, combined with PostgreSQL tsvector full-text search using weighted BM25 scoring, relevance thresholds for preventing hallucination, source-grounded citations showing which post each answer is from, and the complete API pipeline from query to streaming SSE response with session management and rate limiting.
The Ask AI page streams answers live via SSE, shows clickable source badges before the first token arrives, auto-retries on connection drops, enforces daily quotas via Redis, and integrates with chat sessions and XP gamification.
How the AISummary component works — content extraction, prompt engineering for factual extraction, truncation strategy, caching, post-type detection, and when to skip generation.
How this blog optimizes for AI crawlers — llms.txt, ai-profile.json, structured data (TechArticle, FAQ, HowTo, Course, BreadcrumbList), speakable markup, articleBody for crawlers, and robots.txt for AI bots.
Event-driven XP system, badge criteria engine, streak tracking, leaderboard ranking, milestone notifications. Database schema, trigger logic, and the math behind leveling.
How the SM-2 spaced repetition algorithm is implemented, how review schedules are computed from reading history, and why SRS beats bookmarks for long-term retention.
Razorpay integration, premium gate middleware, early access walls, plan selection modal, webhook handling, subscription state sync, and the caching strategy that prevents race conditions.
WebContainer integration, Monaco editor, xterm terminal, Pyodide Python runner, filesystem sandbox, data file uploads, and the security model that keeps it all safe.
AI-powered mock interviews that generate questions from a user's reading history, scale difficulty based on performance, and provide structured feedback with scoring.
How D3.js renders a force-directed graph of reading history, how topics are extracted from completed posts, how edge weights are computed from co-occurrence, and the interactive exploration UI.
Docker Compose breakdown, Nginx config, Redis caching strategy, PostgreSQL tuning for async workloads, Cloudflare proxying, backup strategy, and honest lessons from running production on a $12 VPS.
hreflang strategy, dynamic OG image generation, sitemap structure, robots.txt for AI crawlers, canonical URLs, structured data validator results, and PageSpeed optimizations that moved the needle.
Six months of building, 15 posts of writing. The numbers (build time, cost, traffic), what broke in production, what I'd do the same, and what I'd change for the next project.
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